In one fell swoop, the all-Morena, blundering, makeshift Senate gave its slapdash approval and benediction to 20 separate controversial laws in a marathon session so that they could get priority seating for the Rosalía concert in the Zócalo later that night
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Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies — the majority bloc of which is composed of legislators from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist ruling party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) — approved a reform to the General Health Law, which fast-tracked the closure of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing
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By KELIN DILLON Despite more than a year and a half of reports surrounding the United Nations Office for Project Services’ (UNOPS) failure to deliver life-saving drugs to Mexico in a timely manner, drug shortages and cost overruns, the UNOPS in Mexico was awarded the the United Nations Global Procurement Award – the highest award available in the sector –
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The leftist government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) owes about 10 billion pesos to the pharmaceutical industry for drug purchases and distribution processes carried out by the country’s Institute of Health and Wellbeing (Insabi), and to the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) . “The debt to the industry is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), which provides medical coverage for more than 38 percent of the nation’s population, reported Friday, Dec. 17, that is was unable to purchase at least 91 percent of the medications it will need in 2022. The IMSS had held a public tender to obtain the medications because allegedly
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The future of Mexico’s centralist National Institutional Party (PRI) will be contingent to a single concept: loyalty. The PRI lost all the governorships in its power in June for two reasons: the depth of its discredit (derived more from its arrogance than from the failure of the governments it led), and the lack of loyalty of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Britain’s highly acclaimed medical journal The Lancet on Monday, July 26, put the blame for Mexico’s ongoing shortage of crucial pediatric oncological medications squarely on the shoulders of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). More than a year before the covid-19 pandemic arrived in Mexico in March 2020, the magazine wrote, the country was
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By KELIN DILLON In Mexico, vital oncological drugs necessary to fight children’s cancer did not arrive over the weekend as promised by the Mexican government, revealed the Association of Parents with Sick Children in a letter. Authorities assured the parents on Wednesday, June 23, that the medications would arrive by Saturday, June 26, but the day came and went without
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that Mexico still ranks in fourth place in the number of covid-19 deaths (after the United States, India and Brazil), President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration has committed far more financial resources to his pet Tren Maya tourist train than to public health efforts to curb the pandemic, according to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Legal “Drug Cartel” Busted One day after a fast track bill altering a federal government law was approved by the Senate, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday, July 31, oversaw the signing between the United Nations Office for Projects and Services (UNOPS) and the Public Health Secretariat of a $6.5 billion contract for the purchase
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