By RICARDO CASTILLO Ominous Holiday Warning After expert epidemiologists forecast an ominous surge of covid-19 infections for January, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) issued a public call on Friday, Dec. 4, for people to avoid attending traditional holiday “posadas” gatherings, which usually begin in mid-December and run through Christmas Eve, and to stay home as much as possible
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By KYLIE MADRY Domestic, Sexual Violence Continue to Rise Domestic and sexual violence are on the rise for the 5th straight month in Mexico, according to statistics released by the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) Sunday, Oct. 25. In September, 20,087 criminal complaints were filed for domestic violence. That’s the second highest month this year, after
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Wet Politicking in Dry Chihuahua There was a faceoff this week between farmers and the National Guard (GN) at the La Boquilla reservoir on the Conchos River, which feeds into the Rio Grande at the Ojinaga-Presidio border. The GN, in charge of safekeeping the dam, had to withdraw from the facility on Tuesday, Sept. 8, to avoid
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Getting Back to Work The covid-19 lockdown is taking its toll everywhere in Mexico. The truth is, each and every able body in the country would rather be working than inventing in pastimes at home. But some who are already moving ahead of the pandemic are paving the road for when the moment comes to restart the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO March for Truth, Justice and Peace The several thousand participants in the so-called March for Truth, Justice and Peace on Sunday, Jan. 26, were demanding that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) government come up with a strategy to put an end to the apparently endless and seemingly eternal rising number of murders that Mexico is
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s Economy Shielded In one of the multiple events of the four-day-long 31st Reunion of Ambassadors and Consuls 2020 organized by the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) from Jan. 7 to Jan. 10, Treasury Secretary Arturo Herrera took the forum as an opportunity to claim that Mexico – one year after Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO)
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) first proposed the ambitious construction of a tourist train that would cross through the southern states of Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Chiapas, Campeche and Tabasco, he said that 90 percent of the financing for the ambition project would come from private sector sources. The remainder of the
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