By KELIN DILLON There have been over 31,754 deaths reported in states across Mexico attributed to the coronavirus, a figure 687 percent higher than the number reported by the nation’s Secretariat of Public Health (SSA) of 4,031 covid-19-related deaths. El Universal received the requested the documents and statistics from 16 of Mexico’s states to find this figure, leading to the
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By KELIN DILLON Following the announcement of Mexico’s military being bestowed full control over Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) pet project Tren Maya, including all of its profits, concerns have been raised about the extent of the military’s grasp over the country. The military currently handles 27 areas that are civilian in nature. Three days after the Tren
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), incensed by District Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro’s suspension of his controversial reform to Mexico’s electricity sector the previous day, launched a public tirade against anyone and everyone he deemed his enemies, ranging from foreign countries to his own presidential predecessors, during his daily press conference on the morning of
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By KELIN DILLON Following the events of the women’s march through the streets of Mexico City on Monday, March 8, protesting gender violence, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who has been criticized by the feminist movement as being dismissive of its cause, said the female demonstrators were guilty of “hypocrisy and manipulation,” once again ignoring the larger issue
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Pemex Drops Fitch, But It’s Not Reciprocal The Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) dropped the international ratings firm Fitch from its budget on Tuesday, March 2, saying that it “no longer needs” the New York-based company’s services. Fitch’s ratings of the humongous Pemex debt has been harsh, and in its latest move. Fitch downgraded
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s usually-robust tourism industry suffered brutal losses in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, reaching its lowest level since World War II, and now experts are warning that 2021 could fare even worse for Mexico’s tourism than its predecessor. Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) revealed in a report there was a 46 percent drop
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By KELIN DILLON In an interview with El Universal, Érika Guevara Rosas, director of Amnesty International (AI) in the Americas, admonished Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for his repeated flippance on Mexico’s widespread gender violence problem. “Mexico occupies one of the first places in the world in the number of femicides, of disappearances of girls and adolescents with pregnancies
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By KELIN DILLON For the first time in the history of Mexico, almost half of the federal government’s secretariats will now be headed by women. The new cabinet of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will consist of nine women and 10 men, the closest gender differential ever seen in a Mexican president’s cabinet. The appointments break traditional gendered
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By KELIN DILLON Larry Rubin, former president and CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico, advised caution to legislators before their approval of the outsourcing bill proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). In an interview with Forbes México on Tuesday, Dec. 8, Rubin said that Mexico must take foreign investment seriously and proceed carefully on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a scathing review of the Mexican president’s first two years in office, the highly acclaimed El Universal daily newspaper this weekend offered a point-by-point breakdown of some of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) most prominent failures, on the eve of his second State of the Nation Address, slated for Tuesday, Dec. 1. AMLO,
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