Nearshoring picked up steam when the covid-19 pandemic exposed the considerable risks inherent in the supply chains for numerous critically important products and intermediate goods for which there was often a single supplier
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López-Gatell has — fairly or unfairly — become the target of both praise and criticism, even more than the secretary of health himself, Jorge Alcocer
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White House Director of National Drug Control Policy Rahul Gupta refuted Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) claims that Mexico has no illicit fentanyl production inside its borders
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OPINION By MARK LORENZANA Mexican Undersecretary of Public Health Hugo López-Gatell has a problem with medical clinics attached to pharmacies. The clinics are a common sight throughout Mexico — and for good reason. They fill a need, especially for patients who want to see a doctor to help treat minor illnesses such as colds or diarrhea, or for a quick check-up.
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) signed an initiative on Tuesday, July 5, eliminating Daylight Savings Time (DST) in order “to not compete with people’s biological clock and to return to ‘God’s clock’.” That initiative was then sent to the Mexican Congress to be approved. Noting that the economic gains resulting from DST were minimal compared
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite having confirmed one day earlier that he had contracted the covid-19 virus for a second time, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) made a cameo appearance on the daily presidential press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 11, via a video. On the video, AMLO reported that he was feeling generally well, with only
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Mexican Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela could be the first high-level employee in the current leftist administration to be given a judicial order of dismissal, not just for ignoring a federal judicial order, but also for signing into law an official strategy that does not even come under his jurisdiction, that is the de
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite a dramatic 74 percent uptick in violent crimes, a 7.3 percent increase in poverty, a contraction of the national economy every year since he took office, and, lest we forget, a dismal mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of nearly 260,000 Mexicans (and that’s just based on the official numbers, outside
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER It’s a well-known fact of life: What starts out badly inevitably ends up worse. In the case of Mexico’s now-globally spotlighted Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE), it all began on Saturday, Aug. 7, with the abrupt and unjustified dismissal of renowned author and historian Jorge F. Hernández from his post as the cultural attaché of Mexico’s embassy
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