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 U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited Mexico for the first time in her position as the United States’ second-in-command on Tuesday, June 8, tackling immigration as the most important theme discussed between the neighboring countries and calling the encounter a first step in “embarking on a new era.” The VP arrived in Mexico late Monday night from
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard didn’t mince words when he verbally slammed the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, on Friday, June 4, just two days prior to the country’s midterm elections. During a morning press conference, Ebrard was asked to explain what role the OAS would play in monitoring
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been having a bad week. As Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola astutely pointed out in his Wednesday, May 26, column in El Universal daily newspaper, so far this week, AMLO’s so-called Fourth Transformation (4T) national redux has been leveled by a triple political whammy as a perfect storm
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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 KELIN DILLON Batches of AstraZeneca’s vaccinations against covid-19 that were packaged in Mexico, made with active substances manufactured in Argentina, will be released this month, said Alejandro Svarch, head of the Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris). “I have the high honor and pleasure to inform you that the first four batches of AstraZeneca vaccine meet Cofepris
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since he first took office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been pushing to consolidating his institutional power by dismantling independent institutions, mandating constitutional rewrites and discrediting his opponents through unsubstantiated charges of criminal activity. One of the most notable victims of this latter political tactic has been the current governor
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By KELIN DILLON Following the tragic collapse of a part of Mexico City’s Line 12 metro, leaving 25 dead and 79 injured, records have come out showing that the city and its government ignored multiple reports informing of the line’s faulty aspects, the negligence of which ultimately led to the deadly crash on Monday, May 3. Fingers were pointed left
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By KELIN DILLON Following the deadly crash of Mexico City Line 12 metro cars late Monday, May 3, which left 24 dead and a further 79 people injured, a magnifying glass has been brought close to the history of the metro line in an effort to figure out just how such a fatal tragedy could happen. The incident, which occurred
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XINHUA Mexico will being production of Russia’s Sputnik V covid-19 vaccine as early as May, Russian officials said Wednesday. April 28, during Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard’s visit to Moscow. “Mexico is the first and only state on the North American continent to have registered Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a press conference
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