By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) on Tuesday, Sept. 7, voted unanimously to decriminalize abortion, making the country the most populous in Latin America to permit the procedure. In a landmark decision for the world’s second-largesst predominantly Catholic nation, the SCJN said that the prohibition of abortion violates women’s right to decide the fate of their
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By KELIN DILLON Heavy storms across the central states of Mexico on the evening of Monday, Sept. 6, caused massive floods throughout the region, resulting in the deaths of 17 hospital patients and widespread damage. In Hidalgo, the state north of Mexico City, a hospital run by the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), reported water levels up to a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Finance (Hacienda, or SHCP) Secretary Rogelio Ramírez de la O will need to earmark at least $8.9 billion of federal funds for the state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos’ (Pemex) refinery division between 2022 and 2024 in order for the country to become self-sufficent in gasoline production, according to a study conducted by the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A strike by distributors and commissioners of one of Mexico’s largest gas unions, begun on Monday, Aug. 2, will continue until a price agreement is worked out with the government, according to industry leaders. The closure of natural (LP) gas distribution stations given the Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration’s arbitrary decision over the
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The future of Mexico’s centralist National Institutional Party (PRI) will be contingent to a single concept: loyalty. The PRI lost all the governorships in its power in June for two reasons: the depth of its discredit (derived more from its arrogance than from the failure of the governments it led), and the lack of loyalty of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, July 7, ruled that abortions performed on rape victims cannot be prosecuted legally. The Supreme Court stated that it is unconstitutional to penalize victims of rape who abort, even during the second or third trimester. Currently, abortion is legal only in Mexico City and two Mexican states, Oaxaca, and,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The controversial death of a Hidalgo-based physician while in police custody gained international media attention on Sunday, June 13, as family members and doctors across the state demonstrated in protest of her untimely demise. Although the facts surrounding the case remain blurry, apparently the 29-year-old Beatriz Hernández was arrested following a traffic accident in
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Tren Maya, spearheaded by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), will reportedly begin operation in December of 2023, said National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur) Director Rogelio Jiménez Pons. At his press conference on the morning of Wednesday, June 9, AMLO signed a contract with the Bombardier-Alstom consortium for the construction of 42 carriages
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By KELIN DILLON After more than a year-long battle against the covid-19 pandemic, during which many Mexican states were designated by the country’s traffic light color-based risk system as being in the dangerous orange and red zones, finally 29 states have been designated within the yellow and green rankings, meaning a lower risk of coronavirus infection, as of Monday, May
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XINHUA Leticia Robles makes a meager living by selling artisan soaps made of aromatic essential oils. At least, she did until the covid-19 pandemic dried up tourism in Huichapan, a small village in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo. Designated a “Magic Town” by Mexico’s Tourism Secretariat, Huichapan was until the covid-19 outbreak in February 2020 a tourist magnet known
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