By KELIN DILLON In her visit with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris tackled a multitude of problems facing relations between the two countries, from drug trafficking to labor reform, which she addressed at a public press conference concluding her trip to Mexico and Guatemala. The talks between the two officials were “candid,” said
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what constitutes the first formal complaint against Mexico for violations of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the Canadian-owned Tridonex auto parts corporation filed a legal protest against the workers union at the company’s Matamoros, Tamaulipas, plant, on Tuesday, May 11. Tridonex, which is headquartered out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, filed the complaint under the
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Two former U.S. envoys outline an effective approach
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By KELIN DILLON The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many casualties around the globe, and healthcare personnel, particularly in Mexico, have unfortunately been no exception. Back in September, Amnesty International released a report revealing that Mexico had a higher number of healthcare workers die from covid-related issues than any other country in the world. As of Dec. 21, 2,330 medical
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Thursday, Dec. 19, that he will propose a 15-percent increase in the nation’s minimum wage for 2021. “For the last two years, we have been working to raise the minimum wage in Mexico,” AMLO said in his daily morning press conference. “In our first year
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Negotiations on the controversial personnel outsourcing legislation bill proposed to the Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Nov. 12 have been postponed until February 2021, the president announced on Wednesday, Dec. 9. During an early meeting at the National Palace with business leaders and labor representatives, AMLO said that the details
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Businesses Hit the Outsourcing Panic Button The start of an Open Parliament to discuss Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed reform of outsourcing practices forced the leading business organization representatives to call for an emergency meeting with him that very same day. The president received the businessmen at the National Palace. Given the positioning of
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XINHUA Mexico’s economically active population (EAP) dwindled by 3.6 million people in the third quarter of 2020, mainly due to the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the services sector, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) said on Tuesday, Nov. 17. According to the agency’s National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), Mexico’s EAP registered less than 53.8 million
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