By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It pretty much was to be expected: First, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) endowed the nation’s military with the gift of nonaccountability, meaning that it doesn’t have to report to anyone what it is doing or how much it is spending doing it. Then, he placed the construction and administration of his highly controversial Tren
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s construction company Grupo Carso fell more than 3.14 billion pesos in value on Wednesday, June 16, following an investigative report from Norwegian firm DNV concluding that Mexico City’s deadly Line 12 metro collapse was caused by faulty construction. Constructional faults like poor welding and missing bolts all contributed to the tragic crash that
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By KELIN DILLON The tragic collapse of Mexico’s Line 12 metro on May 3, which left 26 dead, was related to vital failures in the structure’s construction, said a preliminary report released by the independent Norwegian investigative authority DNV. The Norwegian experts interviewed Mexican metro personnel including directors, coordinators, train operators and institutional security personnel to compile its comprehensive report.
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By KELIN DILLON With Mexico’s rainy season undoubtedly having arrived, massive rain storms are expected to continue throughout the country, even causing Mexico City to issue an alert to its inhabitants about the storms. Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) released a statement revealing low pressure in both the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico that has a 20 percent chance of
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By KELIN DILLON According to an investigative piece in the renowned international newspaper the New York Times (NYT), Mexico City’s tragic Line 12 metro accident in early May was largely the result of two Mexican public figures’ gross negligence in the construction and upkeep of the now-infamous route. The U.S. publication pointed to Marcelo Ebrard, the country’s current secretary of
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By KELIN DILLON After the tragic collapse of Mexico City’s Line 12 metro, which the public pointedly blamed on the capital’s government, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, June 10, announced the federal government’s commitment to assist in its reconstruction and reopening. During his daily morning press conference, López Obrador said he would be meeting with Mexico City
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A subsidiary of the Canadian Bombardier transport consortium has won a bid to construct Mexico’s the rail system for Mexico’s controversial Tren Maya tourist train infrastructure project, the Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) government announced Wednesday, May 26. The $1.84 billion project will include the design, manufacture, delivery, testing and commissioning of 42 trains,
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) has so far ignored the 20 proposed requests to investigate current and former officials tied to the construction and maintenance of Mexico City’s Line 12 metro, which saw a tragic and deadly crash on May 3, killing 26 people. The requests, filed by opposition parties, have been stalled by the Morena
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced late Tuesday, May 18, that the Tláhuac to Atlalilco section of the capital’s Metro subway Line 12 is slated to reopen for public transportation starting new week, and the Atlalilco to Mixcoac segment could reopen in the near future. In a social media post, Sheinbaum said that transport
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AMLO Sends Condolences to Line 12 Metro Victims
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