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 In the face of growing demand for medical care and hospitalizations due to the mounting coronavirus pandemic, the Mexican government signed an agreement on Monday, April 13, with major private hospitals to allow government institutions to use up to half of their hospital beds over the course of the next month. Under the agreement,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO First Coronavirus Case in Mexico Mexico’s Health Secretariat was notified on Saturday, Feb. 1, by the Los Angeles International Airport medical authorities of the confirmed case of a 37-year-old Chinese national and Wuhan native who had visited Mexico as of Jan. 21. Taxi service company Uber acknowledged that the infected person used at least two of its
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Happy Birthday, Carlos Slim Just as Mexico’s and Latin America’s wealthiest man, Carlos Slim, was gearing up to celebrate his 80th birthday on Tuesday, Jan. 28, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) delivered a special gift that surely the tycoon did not appreciate: a fine for nearly 1.39 billion pesos. The fine applied directly to mismanagement of accounting
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