By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s fourth wave of covid-19 infections, which Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela on Saturday, Nov. 19, admitted is now on the nation’s doorsteps (although he said this in strict confidentiality on a live internet feed, adding that it should not be leaked to the press), could, over the course of the next
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Apparently oblivious to the fact that his words were streaming live on the internet Friday, Nov, 19, Mexican Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela told attendees to the International Congress of Mental Health in Acapulco that indicators suggest that Mexico will soon enter a fourth wave of covid-19 infections. “Today, we are seeing early signs
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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 RICARDO CASTILLO Alfonso Romo Quits Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) chief of staff for the past two years, entrepreneur Alfonso Romo, turned in his resignation on Wednesday, Dec. 2. Speaking during his morning press conference on Thursday, Dec. 3, AMLO that Romo “will continue to be my liaison with the business sector.” “The truth is that he
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There are two burning journalistic issues in Mexico that best portray not the real shape of things, but how feverish minds are trying their best to undermine the democratically and legally elected presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Here are samples of two articles, one written by syndicated columnist Salvador García Soto and the published in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A year ago at this time, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) declared a full-fledged frontal war on fuel thieves, nicknamed “huachicoleros.” In just a few months, the hordes of fuel duct-spiking gangs were deprived of gasoline as the lines were dried out, and by March, AMLO announced the huachicol had been stopped by as much
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Zero Coronavirus Cases Regardless of the initial alarm in Mexico about potential coronavirus cases, on Thursday, Jan. 23, Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela emphatically denied “any confirmed cases” of the disease. There were, however, two confirmed reports of persons “under observation,” who were finally declared to be ill with “common colds.” One was a doctor in Reynosa,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a barrage of media reports and a flood of public condemnation, Mexican Health Secretary (SSA) Jorge Alcocer Varela on Saturday, March 30, seemed to walk back (at least in words, if not in practice) a decision one day earlier to suspend neonatal testing at public hospitals across the country. In a SSA statement
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Two minor boys – a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old — injured during the Jan. 18 Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, gasoline duct explosion have been flown to the Shriners Hospital in Galveston, Texas, for treatment. Both considered to be in critical condition, the youngest boy suffered burns of 83 percent of his body, while the elder boy
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The number of dead resulting from the explosion at the gasoline duct in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, has risen to 79, according to Mexican Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela. And while there are still 81 people in hospitals, most in serious condition, Alcocer Varela said that the majority have been or are being transported to specialized
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