OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is back in the news now that U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar announced last week a potential $500 billion investment in the new transoceanic project to link up Salina Cruz in the Pacific with the Coatzacoalcos port in the Gulf of Mexico. Hazy as Salazar’s financial plan may be for now,
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In recent weeks in Mexico, the national news headlines have pointed to the same issue: the growing numbers of missing and murdered women throughout the country. This social phenomenon is on the rise, with 969 gender-based murders of women last year alone. The first cases of mass femicide in Mexico that captured the
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The cultural diversity of Mexico today is the result of the syncretism of the native indigenous peoples and the Western culture, brought from Spain by the colonizers to the territory in 1521 that produced what we now know as the Mexican culture. Every aspect of the country’s indigenous cultures — includings language, religion, art
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly 1,000 Ukrainians who fled to Mexico after Russia’s violent invasion of their country and who have been waiting in Tijuana to enter the United States were moved to a sports center converted into a makeshift shelter on Monday, April 4, Mexican government sources said. The Ukrainians, about 30 percent of whom are children,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In an apparent reversal of its previous stance, the administration of leftist Mexican President Andrés Manual López Obrador (AMLO) has seemingly struck a deal with the Joe Biden administration to reinstate the remain-in-Mexico policy as of next week. The U.S. Border Control announced Thursday, Dec. 2, that the Mexican government had agreed to the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Border Patrols officers temporarily detained 14 Mexican soldiers on Saturday, Sept. 25, for crossing into the United States over a border bridge in El Paso, Texas, without proper documentation. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement that two Mexican military vehicles crossed the bridge that connects El Paso with
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By RICH GRANT You can say one thing about the Rail Runner Express: No other train sounds like it. This unusual 96-mile-long railroad runs only between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The trains are sleek-looking silver diesel engines with comfortable double-decker cars. There is a bright red roadrunner (New Mexico’s state bird) painted on the side and the cars
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Gradual Business Reopenings Begin Ever so trepidly and not without fear that it might not be the right move to make, Mexico City and 16 Mexican states will begin gradual reopening for business as of Monday, June 16, after a harrowing 90-day lockdown that began on March 15. City and state authorities have warned that if there
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Bleak Outlook on Poverty There is no question that Mexico’s gross domestic product will plummet this year. The question is how much it will fall, and guesses range from between 5.7 percent to 10.5 percent. A recent study by the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development (Coneval) presented two different economic scenarios for the rest
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Pressure to Restart Work Pressure on the Mexican government to get the economy going again is mounting from all sides. Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer, who is responsible for determining which municipalities and industries can reopen, however, does not yet have an answer. “In general there are approximately 990 municipalities applying to restart, but only about a third
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