By MARK LORENZANA Mexico City’s Metro Collective Transportation System suspended its Metro Line 2 on the morning of Monday, June 4, for three hours due to a malfunction in one of its substations caused by a short circuit. Service at all stations of Line 2 has since been restored. Metro Line 2 runs from the Cuatro Caminos station to Tasqueña station.
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — Leftist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is now halfway through his six-year term, and has promised to not try to stay in office when that term expires on Nov. 30, 2024. Which begs the question: Who will succeed him in that office? Is it too early to predict next
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City Attorney General (FGJ-CDMX) Ernestina Godoy Ramos issued a report on Thursday, Oct. 14, on the results of the investigation of the May 3 collapse in a section of Line 12 of the capital’s Metro system, stating that the accident was due to construction errors. Speaking at a press conference, Godoy Ramos said
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, who owns one of the companies that was instrumental in the construction of Mexico City’s ill-fated Metro Line 12, has agreed to pay for the entire rehabilitation of the part of the line that collapsed on May 3, killing 26 people, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Wednesday, June
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS One day after the New York Times laid the blame for the May 3 collapse of Mexico City’s Line 12 Metro (which led to the deaths of 26 people) squarely on his shoulders, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard published a guest editorial in the Washington Post on Tuesday, June 15, defending the government of President Andrés
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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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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least 24 people are dead and 79 were hospitalized after the overhead Olivos section of the capital’s Line 12 Metro collapsed late Monday, May 3, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced in a press conference. Two metro cars could still be seen hanging from the structure, above a busy Avenida Tláhuac highway in
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