XINHUA The massive caravan that began to pass through the Mexican state of Chiapas on Monday, June 6, with the aim of reaching the United States disbanded Saturday, June 11, after Mexican officials offered temporary visas to the migrants. The caravan, the largest so far this year, left the city of Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, with more than
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By MARK LORENZANA Flights between Simón Bolívar International Airport in Venezuela operated by Línea Aérea Conviasa — the flagship carrier and largest airline of Venezuela — and Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) in Mexico City have not been registered, despite thousands of Venezuelan nationals arriving there since March. Although there have already been three Conviasa flights from Caracas,
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO Old habits die hard! Mexico’s democratic political system is currently undergoing a return to an age-old political habit once known as “la sucesión” (“the succession”), in which one candidate was picked to replace the man in power. This succession routine became a political mainstay back in the days of one-party rule, and was ruthlessly enforced by
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government’s top medical and health authority, the Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), on Thursday, May 19, issued a maximum health alert against vaping and all other forms of tobacco consumption devices, such as hookahs and water pipes. In a press release issued Thursday afternoon, Cofepris, in collaboration with Mexico’s
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OPINION By MEREL HAENEN After a 13-day nationwide manhunt, the lifeless body of missing Mexican teenager Debanhi Escobar was finally discovered on Thursday, April 21, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, inside an abandoned cistern just a few hundred meters from where she was last seen on the morning of her disappearance, in the early hours of Saturday, April 9. That much
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Julio Scherer Ibarra, former legal advisor to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), accused Federal Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero and Senator and former Interior Secretary (SeGob) Olga Sánchez Cordero on Saturday, March 19, of plotting against him to “soil his name” with a dissemination of misinformation campaign. In an interview published in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least 10 people were detained by authorities on Monday, March 7, in connection with their involvement in a brawl between opposing team fans at a soccer match in Queretaro over the weekend, according to that state’s Prosecutor’s Office. The detainees, all men, were arrested for alleged acts of violence during the Querétaro versus
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Thursday, Jan. 27, the daily newspaper Infobae published an article noting that in 90 percent of the legal cases “investigated” by the Mexican government’s so-called Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists (MPPDDHP), no convictions are ever delivered. This figure came from the administration’s own Interior Secretariat (SeGob), which oversees the MPPDDHP office, following
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF One day after Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) asked the Finance Secretariat (Hacienda) for 1.739 billion extra pesos to carry out the controversial and non-binding revocation of mandate, Interior (SeGob) Secretary Adán Augusto López Hernández on Thursday, Jan. 13, told the INE that it has no available resources to dispense to the institute. “In the
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite the fact that just five months ago, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) at the National Palace, declaring that the international financial group considered Mexico “a country of opportunities” thanks to its economic, political and social stability, the corporation announced on Tuesday, Jan. 11, that it would be
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