By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a letter made publish by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Sunday, March 13, Argentine President Alberto Fernández, a diehard populist who has backed López Obrador’s leftist policies, proposed the creation of a regional socialist alliance between Mexico, Argentina and Brazil to combat capitalism. In the letter, dated March 9, Fernández
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Former U.S. envoys and military commanders plead for Afghanistan
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By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 18, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) revealed he would formally request the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) to transfer the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) funds given by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Mexico’s treasury. The IMF Board of Governors previously approved the distribution of $650 billion worth in
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By KELIN DILLON According to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) External Sector Report, Mexico drastically needs to reform its fiscal practices and implement increased monetary support to its inhabitants if it wants to fully recover from the economic effects of covid-19. “More domestic fiscal support is needed in the short term to ease the tensions of the pandemic, reduce scars
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF It will come as no surprise to most economists that the Mexican economy, which contracted by 0.1 percent in pre-covid 2019, once again registered a dramatic shrinkage in 2020. Despite constant assurances from leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) throughout the last 12 months that the nation’s economy was “on track” and would
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Rumors Abound Ever since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced in a tweet on Sunday, Jan. 24, that he had tested positive for coivd-19 and had gone into quarantine, countless rumors have been flying across the media and gossip mills as to the validity of his announcement. Some critics suggested that AMLO had not, in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Vote Postponed The Mexican Chamber of Deputies postponed the vote on the outsourcing regulation bill, which was slated to take place on Thursday, Nov. 26. Now, the debate over it will continue until sometime next week. The decision came after there was an exponential increase of speakers taking the podium from 70, on Monday, Nov. 23,
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XINHUA Mexican financial authorities announced on Friday, Nov. 20, that the country has maintained the necessary criteria for access to the Flexible Credit Line it has with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as the economy has shown “resilience” despite the covid-19 pandemic. The Mexican Foreign Exchange Commission reported that the IMF’s executive board completed the midterm review of the country’s
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