By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Private investment in Mexico sank 19.89 percent in 2020, its biggest decline in 25 years. The decrease in fresh investment, measured as the Gross Formation of Private Fixed Capital (GFCF), represents the deepest slide since the 1995 financial crisis, when investment dropped by 38.51 percent, according to seasonally adjusted figures from the National Institute
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s inflation rate soared to 6.1 percent in April, its highest level since the year 2000, according to figures released on Friday, May 7, by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). The federal government’s inflation rate is based on the prices of the country’s basic food basket, food and household products that
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexico’s annual inflation rate reached 6.05 percent in the first quarter of 2021, its highest level since December 2017, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). In a report issued on Thursday, April 22, the Inegi said that the National Consumer Price Index (INPC) registered a 6.05 percent annual variation in the first half
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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 In the two years of the current presidential administration, Mexico’s government only gave out scholarships to 10 percent of its disabled population, while cutting millions of pesos in funding from the organization that defends their human rights, leaving the country’s disabled community hung out to dry amid the devastating covid-19 pandemic. According to the National Institute of
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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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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A Shot of Nothing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) seems to be more obsessed over the incident in which one elderly woman in the northwestern state of Sonora was given an “empty” covid-19 vaccine injection last month than he claims the media is. The alleged mistake occurred when an apparently overworked nursing student accidently jabbed a
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Salgado Macedonia Keeps Going and Going and Going It seems that wannabe Guerrero governor Félix Salgado Macedonio just can’t take “no” for an answer. Despite the fact that both the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Guerrero Electoral Institute approved the cancelation of his candidacy for Mexico’s June 6 elections on grounds that he did not fully report
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