By THE PULSE NEWS STAFF Supermarkets and self-service convenience stores struggled to keep up with demand this week as anxious Mexico City residents rushed to load up on bottled water in anticipation of the potable water cutoff starting at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31. The National Water Commission (Conagua) has warned that more than 50 percent of Mexico City
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The open referendum to approve or disapprove the no-binding construction of the New International Mexico Airport (NAIM) started on Thursday, Oct. 25, and will end on Sunday, Oct. 28. In case you’re not tuned into the situation, which is the nation’s largest and noisiest gossip topic nowadays, here are some of the pro and con opinions regarding the controversial
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The sale of external water tanks (tinacos) and out-of-town reservations for Mexico’s Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) weekend are on the rise as capitalinos brace for a five-day water cutoff slated to begin Oct. 31. The National Water Commission (Conagua) has warned that more than 50 percent of Mexico City and parts
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Kadima Foundation, a Mexican Jewish philanthropic organization aimed at helping children and young people with special needs, in cooperation with the State of Mexico’s (Edomex) Volunteer Support Social Security Institute (ISSEMyM) and the Edomex branch of Mexico’s Teletón Foundation, which also helps handicapped and special needs children through the collection of private-sector donations for the construction
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a gruesome twist on an already grisly case, authorities have reported that the Mexican couple arrested in Ecatepec, in the State of Mexico (Edomex), on Thursday, Oct. 4, on suspicion of multiple murders, may have killed as many as 20 women in order to harvest their body parts. The male and female suspects
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF More than 50 percent of Mexico City and parts of the State of Mexico (Edomex) will suffer water shortages and cutoffs for at least five days, the National Water Commission (Conagua) announced on Monday, Oct. 10. Conagua will suspend service from Wednesday, Oct. 31, through Sunday, Nov. 4, in order to conduct maintenance operations
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By RICARDO CASTILLO This column is intended to be about the new Mexico City International Airport, now a topic of stiff controversy. But let me start elsewhere, with a different subject that seemingly has nothing to do with the airport, a Mexican political personality who, as a result of the July 1 election, plummeted from near-absolute power to a soon-to-be insignificant senator scrambling for scraps of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray seems to be a master chef for all the dishes in the nation’s formidable international menu. But being a jack-of-all-trades has its shortcomings, and, indeed, Videgaray is now in hot water many reasons. FIRST: Last Monday, May 21, Videgaray convened with the so-called Lima Group’s (GL, for Grupo de Lima) representatives, comprised by
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Welcome Mexico to the New Year, which effectively starts today Jan. 8, 2018. Over are the fiestas that traditionally start on Dec. 12 with the celebration of the nation’s spiritual mother, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and ended last Saturday, Jan. 6, with the celebration of the Three Wise Men fiesta. Naturally, over the holidays, there
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