By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No Vaccines for Doctors Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is busy bragging about his administration’s rollout of its mishmash covid vaccines, claiming that it is on course to inoculate all the nation’s elderly population by the end of April (which it is not; there are numerous cases of eligible Mexicans who registered on the government’s online
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has whimsically changed the course of the country’s scheduled universal vaccination program, altering it as he sees fit in a wing-it-as-you-go strategy. The nation’s original vaccination schedule was set up in five concurrent stages, beginning with frontline health workers, followed by everyone over the age 60. The next two stages
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador continues to tout his administration’s “exemplary” management in controlling the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes covid-19 infections (despite the fact that the country ranks in fourth place in the number of covid deaths, with nearly 66,000 deceased and almost 611,000 confirmed cases as of late
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) nonstop, venomous spiel against any person or organization that dares to question his Venezuelan-inspired Fourth Transformation (T4) socialist model has become the norm nationwide, sowing hatred and division across the country and spurring violence against journalists, NGOs, human rights organizations and anyone else who dares to question the Holy Doctrine
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Grupo Presidente hotel chain, in cooperation with Fundación Gigante, will be donating 60,000 full meals to doctors, nurses and other health workers who are fighting the covid-19 epidemic at the Ismael Cosío Villegas National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) in México City, the hotel chain announced on Wednesday, May 6. The meals began
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Restaurants in Mexico — and around the world — are facing hard times and desperately trying to reinvent themselves as takeout and delivery services in order to pay their rent and meet payroll during the covid-19 lockdown. But while Uber Eats and Sindelantal are replacing the corner table at bistros and the community dining
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In most countries around the globe, the general public is doing everything in its power to express its support and appreciation of the dedicated doctors, nurses and other medical personnel that are putting themselves at risk each day to help save lives in the global fight against the growing Covid-19 pandemic. But not in Mexico. Instead of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Aeromar, Mexico’s fourth-largest commercial airline, announced on Wednesday, April 15, that it will offer free national flights to health care personnel throughout the Covid-19 contingency. The campaign, called Héroes con Bata (Heroes in Lab Coats) will run through May 15, and the airlines will absorb the full cost, including taxes, of the first 100
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a barrage of media reports and a flood of public condemnation, Mexican Health Secretary (SSA) Jorge Alcocer Varela on Saturday, March 30, seemed to walk back (at least in words, if not in practice) a decision one day earlier to suspend neonatal testing at public hospitals across the country. In a SSA statement
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF So-called populist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may be ready to plow up to 107 billion pesos in life support for the desperately moribund state-run oil giant Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex, which with financial obligations of more than $106 billion, is the world’s most-indebted oil company), but he doesn’t seem to have the
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