Tag Archives: Ecuador

Pandora Papers Implicate Billionaires, Legal Advisor to AMLO

Posted on by 2 comments

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

Latin America’s Not-So-Lunatic Moonshot

Posted on by Leave a comment

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Although they have yet to resolve the growing covid, economic and poverty crises back on Earth in their respective countries, six Latin American heads of state — led by Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and Argentina’s Alberto Hernández — announced on Saturday, July 24, the creation of the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (ALCE). The

Read more

Mexico Ranks Second Worldwide in Capital Flight

Posted on by Leave a comment

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico placed as the country with the second-highest rate of capital flight in February, according to a report released earlier this week by the U.S. Treasury Department. In total, $11.531 billion in government bonds and corporate securities left the country in February, the Treasury Department said. Only Brazil registered a higher rate of capital

Read more

Mexico Has Second-Highest Excess Mortality Rate in the World

Posted on by One comment

By KELIN DILLON As Mexico begins expanding its administration of vaccines against covid-19 in its population aged from 50 to 59, a study from Free University of Berlin mathematician Raúl Rojas found that Mexico has the second-worst strategy in the world against coronavirus, only behind Peru.  The country has seen over 444,000 excess deaths than anticipated throughout the pandemic, according

Read more

WHO Says Mexico Could Have Avoided 190,000 Covid-Related Deaths

Posted on by One comment

By KELIN DILLON According to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO), Mexico could have prevented 190,000 covid-19 related deaths in the nation had it managed the pandemic in a more efficient manner.  “Mexico’s Response to Covid-19: A Case Study” was carried out by the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) by commission from the WHO as

Read more

Covid-19 Epicenter Is Moving South in the Americas

Posted on by Leave a comment

XINHUA The epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic “is moving from Europe toward the Americas,” Cristian Morales Fuhrimann, representative of the Pan-American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in Mexico, warned on Wednesday, April 22. The Americas have had “a bit more time to prepare for what is coming,” Morales Fuhrimann said via videoconference in Mexico City, noting the

Read more

LatAm Women Decry Violence, Inequality on International Women’s Day

Posted on by Leave a comment

XINHUA Women across Mexico and throughout Latin America marked International Women’s Day on Sunday, March 8, with marches and demonstrations demanding equality and an end to the growing problem of violence against women, or femicide. In Mexico City, women’s organizations marched on the main square, or Zócalo, where they painted the names of fatal victims of domestic violence and other

Read more

After Turbulent 2019, Leftists Foresee Stable, Prosperous 2020 for LatAm

Posted on by Leave a comment

XINHUA There’s no denying that  2019 was a turbulent one for Latin America, with protests, violent clashes and a fierce tug of war between conservative and progressive currents in countries long considered bastions of stability. But as the region staggers into 2020 with stagnant or even shrinking growth, many liberal observers are hoping that the first year of this new

Read more
« Older Entries Recent Entries »