Disagreements over the coalition’s rules for the selection of its presidential candidate and dissatisfaction with party leadership has caused a wave of resignations across Va por México and the PRI’s ranks
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By MARK LORENZANA In the midst of a debate plagued by accusations of vote buying, disqualifications and insults, the plenary session of the Mexican Senate — with the majority vote of senators under Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and their allies, as well as the majority of legislators from the Institutional Revolutionary Party
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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 KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) reported on Wednesday, Jan. 27, that 44.9 percent more people died of covid-related issues from January through August of 2020 than initially reported by the Mexican government, adding another layer of discord to the nation’s dismal handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The government previously reported that deaths during the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Senator Lilly Téllez, from the conservative National Action Party (PAN), issued a stern condemnation Tuesday, Jan. 26, to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) announcement the previous day that the country will be receiving 24 million unproven Sputnik V vaccines from Russia to be distributed nationwide. “Mexico does not require the ‘affection’ of
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By KELIN DILLON Due to the rapidly increasing spread of coronavirus, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo set aside the covid-19 traffic light system and declared the capital in a state of emergency on Friday, Dec. 11. The mayor’s announcement came after 2,893 residents of Mexico City were hospitalized in the past week alone. Daily hospitalizations in Mexico City have
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By HUGO LÓPEZ VARGAS Covid Vaccines on the Way The Mexican government announced Tuesday, Oct. 13, that it had signed three pre-purchase agreements for covid-19 vaccines, in addition to those expected to come in with the global Covax Authority initiative, starting with possible deliveries as early as December or January. As a result, Mexico should have access to enough vaccines
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Politicking Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) tossed a boa constrictor into the national political swamp on Tuesday, June 9. No doubt all political toads, snakes and even crocs and other amphibians quietly swimming around jumped out of the water, scared as hell. AMLO had his press secretary Jesús Ramírez Cuevas read aloud a document that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Little Parties on the Skid The Mexican Senate, presided over by Mónica Fernández of the National Action Party (PAN), dissolved the partisan representation of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Social Encounter Party (PES) for not meeting the minimum of five senators to be counted as a party. The PRD, led by former Mexico
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