By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Uncontrolled fires in Mexico City and the rest of the Valley of Mexico continued to contaminate the capital’s air quality throughout the weekend and into Monday, May 13, as government officials sought to contain the flames and investigate the source of the blazes. As of Monday morning, there had been at least nine new fires reported in
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Fashion and Beauty with a Purpose By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS We all want to look gorgeous and stylish in the latest fashions, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. The clothes we wear, as well as the makeup and beauty products we use, are a personal expression of who we are and how we feel about ourselves. But in today’s
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) promised that inflation would be kept at a maximum of 3.4 percent rate in 2019, overall price increases for the first half of March shot up to 3.95 percent, according to the National Consumer Price Index (INCO), a subdivision of the National Institute
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF An explosive device set to go off in the midafternoon was discovered by police in the Mexico City suburb of Tlalnepantla’s Mundo E shopping center on Friday, Feb. 15. The device, which was found inside a men’s bathroom on the third floor of the mall, was apparently homemade by nonprofessionals using a mechanical clock
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE Former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. (On Jan. 25, Ambassador Wayne offered a conference on bilateral cooperation in the fields of education, innovation and workforce development at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute’s Innovative Forum. This is a transcript of that presentation.) During my years as
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Toluca International Airport in the State of Mexico closed operations after a small plane crashed there early Thursday, Feb. 7. The plane, a Learjet model 35, made an emergency landing at 7:14 a.m. and then burst into flames on the runway. Firetrucks were on the scene and put out the fire almost immediately.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After two straight years of falloffs, the number of monarch butterflies that arrived in Mexico this year for their winter retreat increased by 144 percent, according to the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF). In a statement issued by on Wednesday, Jan. 30, based on studies conducted in Michoacán and the State of Mexico (EdoMéx) during
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s been hailed as the new gold standard for a wide range of surgical procedures, from cardio-thorax interventions to bariatric bypasses to prostate cancer treatments, and the benefits of robotic surgery over conventional open surgery or standard laparoscopic surgery are hard to deny. Robotic-assisted laparoscopic procedures can dramatically reduce recovery time and hospital stays for patients, as
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Six Mexican governors from the states most direly affected by gasoline shortages — and which, coincidentally, are also from parties other than President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s left-leaning National Regeneration Movement (Morena) – met with Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Octavio Romero Oropeza, Energy Secretary Rocío Nahle García and Public Safety Secretary Alfonso Durazo Montaño on
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The good news is that by moving the Mexican Army to take over Pemex oil refineries, refined fuels theft stopped almost overnight. The bad news is that, nowadays, the residents of the Guanajuato, Querétaro, Michoacán, Jalisco and State of Mexico (Edoméx) can´t get a liter of green or red gas for their vehicles. Theft stopped, but the
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