White House Director of National Drug Control Policy Rahul Gupta refuted Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) claims that Mexico has no illicit fentanyl production inside its borders
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Three years after Mexican students were ranked last among 38 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries in math, science and reading by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), the country has apparently suspended the tests altogether. Tue Halgreen, a senior analyst at PISA headquarters in France, confirmed the suspension of field tests in Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) formalized his nomination of Delfina Gómez Álvarez as the new head of the Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) on the morning of Monday, Feb. 15. Gómez replaces Esteban Moctezuma Barragán, who is anticipated to be ratified by the Senate Tuesday, Feb. 16, as Mexico’s newest ambassador to the United
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ebrard and Sullivan Talk Migration A new era in Mexican-U.S. diplomatic relations began Wednesday, Jan. 6, with a video conference between Foreign Relations Secretary (SRE) Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón and President-elect Joe Biden’s National Security spokesman, Jake Sullivan. Both agreed that the most important issue in a new bilateral agenda is to collaborate in order to have a
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Red Alert for Three Kings’ Day There could be no more powerful image over the Christmas and New Year holidays than the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) doctors working out of covid-laden patient wards telling everyone, “We don’t want to see you here. Please, stay home.” Their pleas, however, fell on deaf ears. On Tuesday, Jan. 5,
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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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By RICARDO CASTILLO Early Vacations Due to the imminent threat of a Covid-19 contagion, Mexico’s Public Education Secretariat (SEP) opted for stopping classes altogether for two weeks as of Friday, March 20. The two weeks will link up with the upcoming two week Easter vacation, slated to start on April 4. Classes will restart on April 20, providing for a
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By RICARDO CASTILLO ,,, A quick review of the most important news in Mexico over the last few days…
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