By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, Jan. 4, offered Wikileaks founder Julian Assange political asylum. “I am in favor of Assange being pardoned,” AMLO said during his daily morning press conference at the National Palace. “And not only that, I am going to ask the secretary of foreign relations (Marcelo Ebrard)
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By KELIN DILLON Employees of Mexican consulates in the United States, outraged over massive layoffs during the holiday season, are calling on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to find a solution to their problems. The layoffs are the result of the U.S. government refusing to renew the employees’ A-2 visas. The A-2 visa allows foreign officials to enter
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccines for Mexico has been shipped out and is due to arrive in the country on Wednesday, Dec. 23, Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday, Dec. 22. The initial installment of 250,000 doses of the vaccine left the Pfizer plant in Belgium on Tuesday and is being
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexicans can expect to see the first covid-19 vaccines in the country administered by mid-December, Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday, Nov. 24. “The start of a nationwide vaccination campaign is imminent,” Ebrard said during the daily press briefing of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). “We are on track, and, in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Cienfuegos, Talk of the Town The release last week of former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos from an imminent trial in the United States by U.S. Attorney General William Barr continues to be the talk of the day in Mexico. The fact is is that nobody has the hard facts needed to have a sound opinion on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) emphatically denied having threatened the United States with expelling its Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents from the country over the controversial arrest of former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos in Los Angeles last month. Speaking at his daily early morning press conference at the National Palace on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Now that former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda has returned to Mexico, he will be tried in a nonmilitary Mexican court based on evidence provided by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Wednesday, Nov. 18. Cienfuegos, who had faced drug-running and money-laundering charges in the United States
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid Vaccine Trials Mexico will soon launch phase 3 trials of the Canadian-Chinese covid-19 vaccine called CanSino Biologics developed by Janssen Labs, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The vaccine trials will be held in Mexico City, the Pacific Coast states of Michoacán, Guerrero and Oaxaca, and the northern border states Coahuila and Nuevo León, accross from
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