The explosion, the exact cause of which remains unclear but which was apparently sparked by a leak from a gasoline tanker, totally decimating the Servifácil gas station and an adjacent convenience store, along with 10 other vehicle
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO A massive fire was recorded in a wastewater pipeline near Mexico City’s Periférico Río de Los Remedios, in the capital’s Nezahualcóyotl municipality, in the early hours of Thursday, Nov. 17. According to preliminary reports from municipal authorities, the fire started around 7:30 a.m. in a wastewater duct, but rapidly expanded across the area to six other drainage
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO A homemade pipe bomb exploded in a police station in Mexico City’s up-and-coming Colonia Santa María la Ribera on Saturday, Sept. 3, causing minor injuries to local police officers. The capital’s Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) reported that the explosion at the Ricardo Flores Magón police station left two officers injured and damaged windows and furniture. Paramedics
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) flew to Cuba on Sunday, May 8, to meet with that island nation’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel. During his daylong visit, López Obrador, who was accompanied by his top military brass, placed flowers at a monument for Cuban poet José Martí, who is considered the ideologue of the
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XINHUA An explosion caused by accumulation of LP gas inside a home in Mexico City killed one person and injured at least 12 others on Saturday, Nov. 13, authorities said. Additionally, another 28 families were left homeless by the blast. The explosion occurred at about 9:40 a.m. local time in the Pensil Norte neighborhood of the Miguel Hidalgo Precinct, said
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XINHUA At least one person died and 15 others were injured in an explosion near an illegal tap on a pipeline belonging to Mexico’s state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company in the central state of Puebla, local authorities said on Sunday, Oct. 31. Puebla Governor Miguel Barbosa said in a press conference that the accident occurred near a liquefied petroleum
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF An explosion resulting from an apparent natural gas leak in a home in Mexico City’s Avenida Coyoacán on Monday, Aug. 16, left at leastone person dead and 21 others injured, according to local authorities. The explosion occurred on the second floor of an apartment building located at Avenida Coyoacán 1909 on the corner of
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By HICHAM HADDAM, former Lebanese ambassador to Mexico
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A tanker truck transporting liquefied gas exploded in the west Mexican state of Nayarit in the early morning on Monday, Nov. 16, killing at least 13 people, local officials said. According to a report from the Nayarit Attorney General’s Office, the double-tanker truck crashed and exploded along the highway linking the state capital Tepic with Guadalajara, in the western state
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By RICARDO CASTILLO At this point, the question is not so much what, where or how? The question is: Who is the real culprit behind the Jan. 18 gasoline duct explosion in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo? A review of general opinions across Mexico regarding the blast in the obscure little township just a 100 kilometers north of Mexico City points in every
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