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Mexican Minimum Wage to Increase by 20 Percent in 2023

PULSE NEWS MEXICO The minimum wage in Mexico — the lowest within the three-member United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) region — will increase by 20 percent in the coming year, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Thursday, Dec. 1. The announcement constituted the fifth increase in Mexico’s minimum wage since López Obrador took office four years ago. During the morning

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Mexico Raises Teachers Salaries by 7.5 Percent, Union Demands 25 Percent

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF All Mexican public teachers who making less than 20,000 pesos will receive on average a 7.5 percent pay hike, Public Education Secretary Delfina Gómez announced Sunday, May 15, the country’s official Teacher’s Day. The new salary increases will be staggered in three segments of 3 percent, 2 percent and 1 percent, Gómez explained during

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The Real Perpetrator behind the Murders of Mexico’s Journalists

OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Thursday, Feb. 10, yet another Mexican journalist was murdered, the fifth so far this year, and the 50th since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took office three years ago. Heber López, from the internet news site Noticias Web in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, was shot dead in broad daylight as he left his office Thursday

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The President’s Salary

OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Since Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took office three years ago, no government official in Mexico, be it fe3deral, state or municipal, nor member of any autonomous bodies or the country’s federal judicial powers, is allowed to have a salary higher than — or even equal to — that of the president. However, since a

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SAT Details New Asset Seizure Rules for Tax Debtors

By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, Dec. 14, Mexico’s Tax Administrative Service (SAT) revealed its new methodology to acquire owed taxes from debtors in 2022, with the newfound jurisdiction to seize assets from taxpayers’ ​​bank deposits, properties, savings accounts, insurance investments, stocks, bonds and real estate as a form of repayment. Now, taxpayers will be held directly responsible for reviewing notifications

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