By KELIN DILLON Since Mexico’s elections took place on June 6, the country’s rate of vaccination against covid-19 has continuously declined, while its number of positive cases has shot up dramatically, leading to a microscopic analysis from experts on just why Mexico’s fight against coronavirus has gone sideways, again. Secretary of the Treasury Arturo Herrera had warned in cabinet meetings
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XINHUA Mexico is registering a rebound in covid-19 infections in six of its 32 states after 20 weeks of a national downward trend, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo López-Gatell said on Tuesday, June 15. Yucatán and Quintana Roo have a “very substantial” increase in covid cases, followed by Baja California, Campeche, Sinaloa and Veracruz, according to the official.
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s vaccination process against covid-19 along the U.S. border will begin on Wednesday, June 16, for inhabitants in northern industrial cities, said the country’s Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell. The program will begin in 39 municipalities with the 1.35 million doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine donated to Mexico by the United States, available for
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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
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XINHUA Mexico launched its immunization plan against covid-19 for teachers and other educational personnel in five states on Tuesday, April 20, with vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical firm CanSino, after announcing the return to in-person classes in some states in two weeks. Federal and state health authorities started the immunization program for educational staff in the states of Coahuila, Nayarit, Tamaulipas,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Vaccine Chaos The covid-19 vaccine rollout in Mexico, which began in December of last year, has been chaotic, to say the least, with allegations of empty syringes, vaccine hoarding, preferential administration for government workers and political maneuvering. Currently, the government is dishing up a hodgepodge of both one-dose and two-dose vaccines (some internationally verified, some not) from
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS INE Tells AMLO to Respect Democratic Process Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his bosom buddy Félix Salgado Macedonio just don’t know how to take “no” for an answer. After Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) banned Salgado Macedonio from running for governor of the Pacific state of Guerrero as AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena)
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) has announced the nation’s own vaccine, called Patria (or “fatherland), is estimated to be ready by the end of 2021 for administration throughout the country, following the beginning of volunteer-based human trials this month. If the vaccine is deemed successful, it has the opportunity to save Mexico more than
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No Vaccines for Doctors Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is busy bragging about his administration’s rollout of its mishmash covid vaccines, claiming that it is on course to inoculate all the nation’s elderly population by the end of April (which it is not; there are numerous cases of eligible Mexicans who registered on the government’s online
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Thugs in Uniforms Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) ever-expanding army of National Guard (GN) troops has been flexing its muscles in a violent show of force against civilians, proving once again that unbridled military power is a threat to the nation and the Mexican people alike. In just the last month alone, members of AMLO’s
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