By MARK LORENZANA Economic experts in Mexico have questioned the numbers that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) presented in his fourth State of the Nation Address (Informe de Gobierno) at the National Palace in Mexico City on the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 1, and accused him of “not sticking to reality.” The analysts, in a report by Mexican
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By MARK LORENZANA With his popularity dropping, violence growing and the country’s economy crashing, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 1, tried his hardest to put a positive spin on his administration’s shortcomings through his State of the Nation Address (Informe de Gobierno) at the National Palace in Mexico City. The 50-minute speech
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Since the global covid-19 pandemic first erupted in March of 2020, Mexico’s economy has dropped two spots, from 15th to 17th place. according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). That is the worst position it has held since 1988, when it occupied the same place in a list of 190 nations. The Mexican economy
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its April World Economic Outlook (WEO) report cut its economic growth expectation for Mexico in 2022 to 2.0 percent, 0.8 percentage points lower than it had forecast in January. In the diagnosis of January of this year, the agency had already slashed its estimate for Mexican 2022 growth
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE
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XINHUA The economy of Latin America and the Caribbean will grow by only 2.1 percent in 2022, representing a slowdown compared to 6.2 percent in 2021, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reported last week. According to the commission’s projections released on Wednesday, Jan. 12, the economy of the Caribbean region will grow 6.1
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Report on Mexico’s Economic Growth
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A Shot of Nothing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) seems to be more obsessed over the incident in which one elderly woman in the northwestern state of Sonora was given an “empty” covid-19 vaccine injection last month than he claims the media is. The alleged mistake occurred when an apparently overworked nursing student accidently jabbed a
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