By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) reported on Wednesday, Jan. 27, that 44.9 percent more people died of covid-related issues from January through August of 2020 than initially reported by the Mexican government, adding another layer of discord to the nation’s dismal handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The government previously reported that deaths during the
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By KELIN DILLON Over 30 million Mexican students resumed their public education on Monday, Jan. 11, following the end of the Christmas holidays. Most states in the country will be taking part in the third installment of the Secretariat of Public Education’s (SEP) virtual Learn-at-Home program. The Learn-at-Home initiative is a collaboration between the Mexican government and various national television
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) named elementary school teacher Delfina Gómez Álvarez as the nation’s new secretary of education on Monday, Dec. 21. Gómez Álvarez, who previously served as a “superdelegate” for the State of Mexico (Edoméx), will replace Esteban Moctezuma Barragán, who AMLO nominated last week to serve as Mexico’s new
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Mexico’s Remote Education in Rural Areas
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Tele-Education
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS During his embassy’s national day reception at the Four Seasons Hotel on Wednesday, Dec. 11, Qatari Ambassador to Mexico Mohammed Alkuwari spoke proudly of his country’s progress in preparing to host the 2022 World Cup, noting that eight of the 12 stadiums where the games will be held are already constructed. “By the end of 2020, we
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XINHUA … Coparmex warns that Mexico is already failing at the level of primary education, and cannot afford to provide higher education…
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As an outsider who follows Mexico and Mexican news closely, I’ve noticed a couple of recent articles that should be worrying the Mexican middle class. First, according to his column in Pulse News Mexico, Ricardo Castillo has noted that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is making investors nervous. Castillo wrote: “Fear does not ride on
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In yet another of his baffling political sleights of hand, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, July 31, somehow managed to convince his adoring hordes of blind followers that a 0.1 percent growth rate for the second quarter of 2019 – which, in fact, confirmed that the country is in a state of economic
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AMLO’s Education Reform
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