By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) tested positive for covid-19 on Monday, Jan. 10, after announcing earlier in the day that he had woken with a soar throat and mild flu-like symptoms. AMLO made the announcement of his infection himself late Monday via his Twitter account, adding that he will isolate and work
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said Tuesday, Dec. 14, that it is the responsibility of both Mexico and the United States to protest migrants by creating the conditions for economic and social development in Central America. Speaking during an interview with the Mexican daily newspaper El Universal and just 100 days into his
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With more than 24,500 people reported missing during the first three years of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, and a total of more than 94,000 missing persons with no explanation as to their whereabouts, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) sent a select team of researchers on an official
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, Oct. 4, that he would not attend the award ceremony for the presentation of the Belisario Domínguez Medal to Senator Ifigenia Martínez on Thursday, Oct. 7, because Senator Lilly Téllez “threatened to disrespect” him. Speaking during his daily press conference, this time in Puebla where he was on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Interior Secretariat’s Deputy Attorney for Human Rights Alejandro Encinas said Friday, Sept. 24, that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had sent a letter to newly instated Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett formally requesting the extradition of the former head of Mexico’s Criminal Investigation Agency, Tomás Zerón de Lucio. At a press conference,
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) appointment of former Tabasco Governor Adán Augusto López Hernández to replace Olga Sánchez Cordero to head the nation’s Interior Secretariat (Segob) smacks of political maneuvering and foreshadows further plans to restructure the presidential team with an undeniable hint of succession. At first it seemed that López Hernández appointment was just
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Interior (Gobernación, or Segob) Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero announced Thursday, Aug. 26, that she will be resigning from that post to retake her seat in the Senate and to assume the next presidency of the country’s upper legislative house. Sánchez Cordero was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018 and was
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The president of Mexico’s conservative National Action Party (PAN), Marko Cortés, was recently faced with the dilemma of having to choose between being the key to the party’s transition in a post-Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Mexico or watching the it surrender its last semblance of political relevancy after having been severely battered in the 2012
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When a then-30-year-old Rosario Hernández Jiménez first took a job as a biochemist for the Oaxaca branch of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) back in the early 1990s, she was impressed by the worker benefits her new position included. Not only did the IMSS provide her with full medical insurance (it is, after all, the nation’s
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just 24 hours after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) decried a report in Reforma noting that 56 human rights activists had been killed so far during his presidency as “false” and “a political conspiracy aimed at discrediting his administration,” the government’s own Secretariat of the Interior (Gobernación, or Segob) pointed out that the newspaper’s figures
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