Judge Orders FGR to Investigate López-Gatell’s Negligence in Covid Response
López-Gatell has — fairly or unfairly — become the target of both praise and criticism, even more than the secretary of health himself, Jorge Alcocer
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Mathematician Predicts 64,000 Covid Deaths in Mexico in 2023
López-Gatell’s public disdain for masks at the start of the pandemic may have only exacerbated the widespread contraction of the virus across the Mexican public
Read moreMexican Government to Hire 749 Foreign Doctors
By KELIN DILLON According to an announcement made by Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) General Director Zoé Robledo on Tuesday, Oct. 11, Mexico’s federal government will begin hiring 749 foreign doctors to come and work in IMSS facilities in remote areas of the country beginning on Wednesday, Oct. 12. Robledo detailed that Mexico is seeking medical professionals in 43 different
Read moreMexico’s Opposition Parties Hang Tight for Next Election
OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
Read moreProfeco Says Private Hospitals Are Overcharging Patients
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Federal Consumer Protection Agency (Profeco) Director Ricardo Sheffield on Wednesday, Sept. 29, put the nation’s private hospitals on notice, warning that many are overcharging insured patients and applying price increases far above the inflation rate. “The insurance companies, with whom we also spoke, are also reporting information on the relationship they have with
Read moreA Myopic AMLO Sings his own Praises, Merited or Not
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite a dramatic 74 percent uptick in violent crimes, a 7.3 percent increase in poverty, a contraction of the national economy every year since he took office, and, lest we forget, a dismal mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of nearly 260,000 Mexicans (and that’s just based on the official numbers, outside
Read moreHospitals Left without Gel, Soap as Covid Surges in Mexico
By KELIN DILLON While Mexico’s hospitalizations caused by covid-19 have grown by a massive 562 percent in the past two months alone, the country’s hospitals have been suffering from a huge lack in supply of gel, soap and other necessary items used in the sanitation. According to patients and health workers, there is also a distinct lack of services, medicinal
Read moreMexico City Returns to Orange without Added Restrictions
By KELIN DILLON Thanks to Mexico City’s steadily rising case count of covid-19 infections, largely in part to the emergence of the virus’ Delta variant, the capital city will now regress back to an orange ranking on Mexico’s traffic light-based coronavirus risk system from July 26 through Aug. 8. While an orange designation is supposed to close the region’s non-essential
Read moreThe Real Reason for AMLO’s War on the Tamaulipas Governor
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since he first took office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been pushing to consolidating his institutional power by dismantling independent institutions, mandating constitutional rewrites and discrediting his opponents through unsubstantiated charges of criminal activity. One of the most notable victims of this latter political tactic has been the current governor
Read moreAMLO Vows to Have All Mexicans Vaccinated by October
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF All adult Mexicans will have received at least one dosage of a covid-19 vaccine by October, ahead of the traditional winter flu season, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Tuesday, May 18. Speaking during his daily press conference at the National Palace, AMLO pointed out that the government’s national vaccination program has recently
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