PULSE NEWS MEXICO An exhibition of 30 large-format photographs of Peru and Amazonia is slated to open on Friday, July 22, along Avenida Paseo de la Reforma along the Walk of the Friendly Cultures, located between the Ahuehuete Roundabout and Avenida Insurgentes. The images, which are being presented by the Peruvian Embassy in Mexico in cooperation with the Mexico City
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Without bothering to offer a public tender, Mexico’s state-run and highly indebted oil giant Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) granted a contract of 37.341 billion pesos to two of its own subsidiaries for the lease of new oil tanker trucks in November. The contract constitutes the largest directly awarded so far during the current administration of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Just when everyone in Mexico thought President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and tycoon entrepreneur Carlos Slim had frozen their relationship, last Friday, June 28, they reappeared together in the state of Oaxaca to relaunch the completion of the 150-kilometer-long, two-expanded-lane Milta-Tehuantepec super highway, with an 8-billion-peso investment. Was this event the beginning of the thawing of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO In tandem with the announcement on Monday, April 29, of the additional construction of the Santa Lucía military airport — now renamed the Felipe Ángeles Airport — just northwest of the Teotihuacán Pyramids, Communications and Transportation Secretary Javier Jiménez Espriú surreptitiously released to the handpicked newspaper El Universal as well as to journalist Jorge Zepeda, copies of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Here in Mexico, we have witnessed a lot more than a tempest in a teapot as President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is claiming over the new airport debate. The cancellation of the construction of the New International Mexico Airport (NAIM) has unleashed the virulent “fifi” press against the future president of Mexico. It was, however, a
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