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Elderly Danzón Dancers Show They Still Got What It Takes

PULSE NEWS MEXICO Sunday, Aug. 28, was Mexico’s National Day for the Elderly, and while many of the country’s 12 million-plus over-60 citizens suffer from a barrage of health limitations such as diabetes, hypertension and glaucoma, a large segment of the gray-is-beautiful set turned out at the capital’s iconic Monumento de la Revolución to strut their stuff and show that

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Mexico Will Apply Covid Boosters to Teachers, Health Workers

XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday, Dec, 22, that  booster vaccines against covid-19 will soon be applied to both health workers and education personnel, as it continues to be administered to those over 60 years old. “We have to continue moving forward, as we are doing with booster vaccines for senior citizens, health personnel and teachers,”

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All Mexicans to Receive AstraZeneca Covid Boosters

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Friday, Dec. 10, that all Mexicans will receive booster shots against the covid-19 virus. Speaking during his daily press conference, this time in the northern state of Chihuahua, AMLO said that the federal government will administer AstraZeneca boosters to all eligible Mexicans in accord with internationally

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AMLO Hikes Elderly Pension Ahead of Mexico’s June Midterms

By KELIN DILLON  Just over two months before Mexico’s June 2021 midterm elections, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced he would be doubling the pension for the nation’s elderly community gradually, until reaching 6,000 pesos every two months in 2024. AMLO also revealed the minimum age to receive the pension would go down from 68 to 65, expanding

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Mexico’s Mass Vaccine Distribution Begins

By KELIN DILLON During his daily press conference on the morning of Tuesday, Dec.12, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that mass distribution of the covid-19 vaccine among the general population will soon begin, starting with Mexico’s elderly population, once all health workers dealing with covid patients have been inoculated. All of the elderly in Mexico are expected

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2019 To Be Dedicated to Emiliano Zapata

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO     As millions of Mexicans look forward to an uncertain future in terms of transport because of the growing nationwide shortage of gasoline and other fuels, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) decided to look instead to the country’s past with the announcement on Friday, Jan. 11, that 2019 will be dedicated to the memory

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