PULSE NEWS MEXICO During the first 10 months of 2022, Mexico was the largest public debt underwriter in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a report released on Monday, Jan. 16, by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Mexico placed a total of nine sovereign issues for an amount of $9.471 billion during that time,
Read more
XINHUA A caravan of about 1,000 migrants, the seventh since August, left southeastern Mexico on Tuesday, Aug. 30l for the U.S. border, local media reported. The caravan mainly included men from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, as well as hundreds of women and approximately 150 children, said local news reports. If the group meets up with others
Read more
By JUAN DE JÉSUS BREENE While this topic might not be sexy, for those who live in Mexico, and even more so, for those who are considering investing here, the concept of debt vulnerability is an important factor to consider in the puzzle of a country’s economic health. Sure, Mexico is a massive player in the world economy, an economy
Read more
XINHUA Mexico’s Caribbean resort region is facing an ecological catastrophe due to a mysterious contagious disease that has damaged up to 50 percent of all local marine coral species, according to Lorenzo Álvarez Filip, a researcher from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). “This is a disease of tissue loss in hard corals, and the pathogen is still unknown,
Read more
By MARK LORENZANA The United States, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala will be the four representatives at the 2023 Under-20 World Cup of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) in Indonesia. Mexico’s U-20 team will be left off that list after it suffered a shocking defeat to underdog Guatemala on Thursday, June 30, at
Read more
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a sign that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) unbridled political power is finally beginning to wane, opposition members of the country’s lower house Chamber of Deputies mustered enough votes on Sunday, April 17, to block the passage of his controversial electricity reform bill, which would have prioritized contaminating carbon-based energy sources from state-run entities
Read more
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS More than 3,000 Mexicans — including three billionaires and a former close advisor to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — have been implicated in the so-called Pandora Papers, a trove of more than 11.8 million documents collected by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) that exposes secretive offshore accounts that allowed government leaders, financial tycoons
Read more
By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 9, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had a phone call with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, joined by Mexican Secretary of the Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard, to ensure a further supply of vaccinations against covid-19 from the United States to Mexico. “We are going to talk on Monday to give continuity to
Read more
By RICARDO CASTILLO Gags on Twitter and Facebook? A bill to “regulate the performance of social networks” in Mexico is due to be introduced in Congress this week by Senator Ricardo Monreal. The proposed bill would regulate social network companies like Twitter and Facebook on a national scale and would prevent them from censuring accounts of people or entities that
Read more
By RICARDO CASTILLO Two Women’s Days It’s not amazing, given the nature of the brutality of some Mexican machos, to be witnessing the enormous support the two days of protest by Mexican women is getting just about from everywhere. You name it, social groups, universities, government secretariats (like Education, no classes on Monday, March 9) and entrepreneurial groups have all
Read more