By KYLIE MADRY Ventilators Not Saving Mexico’s Covid-19 Patients More than 80 percent of intubated covid-19 patients have died in Mexico, according to a report released by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) late Wednesday, Oct. 21. Since covid-19 hospitalizations began in March, 17,331 IMSS patients have been intubated, the institute reported. Of those, 15,070, or 86.9 percent, have died.
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By KYLIE MADRY Dr. AMLO’s In Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) reported testing negative for covid-19 Wednesday, Oct. 21, following positive cases among several of his cabinet members over the past week. He threw in his two cents at his morning press conference, telling Mexicans to eat healthy to avoid catching the virus. “Don’t eat in excess, don’t
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By KYLIE MADRY AMLO’s Moneybags Brother Has Chutzpah Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues his assault on freedom of the press in his country, this time with his brother filing a suit against the journalist who published videos of him receiving large sums of money from a Chiapas politician. The videos, taken in 2015, made waves when journalist
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By KYLIE MADRY From Federales to Mall Cops More than 8,000 members of the Federal Forces Division and the Gendarmerie Division of the now-dissolved Mexican Federal Police will be reduced to doormen and parking lot attendants, according to an Oct. 17 report in La Crónica newspaper. The divisions built a reputation as specialized military-police forces within the Federal Police, with high-power
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By KYLIE MADRY México Libre Isn’t Free México Libre, the political organization founded by former Mexican President Felipe Calderón and his wife Margarita Zavala, won’t be recognized as a political party after all, following a ruling by Mexico’s National Electoral Tribunal on Wednesday, Oct. 14. This isn’t the group’s first roadblock on the way to registering as a legitimate political
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By HUGO LÓPEZ VARGAS Covid Vaccines on the Way The Mexican government announced Tuesday, Oct. 13, that it had signed three pre-purchase agreements for covid-19 vaccines, in addition to those expected to come in with the global Covax Authority initiative, starting with possible deliveries as early as December or January. As a result, Mexico should have access to enough vaccines
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By RICARDO CASTILLO On Monday, Oct. 11, we will find out who the new president of Mexico’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party will be. Elections through polls organized by the National Electoral Institute (INE) are currently underway through Saturday, Oct. 8. The results will be made public by the INE, as stated, on Monday. Getting to this point
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By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S.-Mexico Trade Despite restrictions on nonessential travel across the U.S.-Mexico border, two-way trade between the countries has continued on a relatively steady course, with a hefty favorable trade balance for Mexico. Figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday, Oct. 6, indicated that U.S. exports to Mexico during August amounted to$17.047 billion, while Mexican sales to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Voting for a Rigmarole The 11-member Mexican Supreme Court vote to allow a referendum to be held to decide whether to bring to trial past presidents for crimes allegedly committed while in they were in power past last week in two stages. The first stage was to decide if the public referendum is constitutional. The referendum’s constitutionality
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO and Corral Trade Verbal Punches On Friday, Sept. 18, Mexican Security Undersecretary Ricardo Mejía Berdeja named eight well-to-do Chihuahua farming families that he accused of “hoarding” 35 million cubic meters of Rio Conchos water, representing a full 12.5 percent of the water that is owed to the United States. One person alone, Mejía Berdeja said, is
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