By MARK LORENZANA Section 6 of the controversial Tren Maya, which will run from Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo to its capital city of Chetumal, will be the most destructive in environmental terms, and also the most expensive. The Environmental Impact Statement (MIA) for the 255-kilometer Section 6 of the Tren Maya — one of Mexican President
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By MARK LORENZANA Bad news for Mexican soccer fans: Mexican striker Jesús “Tecatito” Corona, who plays in La Liga in Spain, was hurt in a training session with his club Sevilla, suffering an injury to his ankle as well as a fibula fracture. Corona went under the knife on Thursday, Aug. 18, his soccer club reported, which means Tecatito will
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By MARK LORENZANA In the new “Basic Education Curricular Plan” of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), high school students in Mexican public schools must learn in their civics subject the infrastructure works carried out by the government, which political party has promoted these works and if they were part of previous campaign promises. These are just a few examples of what
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By MARK LORENZANA Physicians in Mexico have rebuked Mexican Undersecretary of Public Health Hugo López-Gatell for his criticisms that medical offices attached to pharmacies are “a hoax” and “a great deception” and that “they should not exist” because “they don’t really treat diseases.” López-Gatell, in his Health Pulse report at Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) daily press conference
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By MARK LORENZANA Specialists from a U.S. company joined the efforts to rescue 10 workers who have been trapped for 15 days at the El Pinabete mine in the Mexican state of Coahuila, Laura Velázquez, national coordinator of Civil Protection, reported on Wednesday, Aug. 17. “The company from the United States will join the work, and we are going to see what
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OPINION By MARK LORENZANA There have been mostly negative reactions to the appointment by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of Leticia Ramírez as head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), to replace Delfina Gómez Álvarez. Ramírez has not been in her position for more than a couple of days, and already the SEP had presented a “New
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By MARK LORENZANA A group of armed men subdued and interrogated what is presumed to be four police officers from the municipality of Concepción de Buenos Aires in the Mexican state of Jalisco, who they recorded and forced to confess alleged links with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). The video, which has since been circulated on social media networks,
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By MARK LORENZANA For Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the recent acts of violence in the Mexican states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Guanajuato and Jalisco that left hundreds of people dead and property destroyed is but “an act of propaganda by criminal groups that my political opponents are taking advantage of.” In his daily morning press conference on
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By MARK LORENZANA After heaping praise on Delfina Gómez Álvarez for her tenure as head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in his daily morning press conference on Monday, Aug. 15, officially announced the appointment of Leticia Ramírez to take over the leadership of the SEP. López Obrador assured the audience at the
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By MARK LORENZANA On Monday, Aug. 15, 12 municipalities in Mexico City experienced a reduction in the supply of drinking water due to the low water levels in the storage dams of the Cutzamala System aqueduct. Representatives from the Mexico City Water System (Sacmex) explained early Monday that the water pressure in the capital would be decreased from the usual
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