OPINION By MARK LORENZANA Veteran Mexican-American journalist Jorge Ramos, in an article for the now-defunct U.S. political and opinion website Splinter, wrote about the curious Mexican political custom of “el dedazo,” which, when translated roughly, means “to point a finger.” “As a young man, I was obsessed with the political phenomenon of ‘el dedazo’ in Mexico. It didn’t make sense
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By MARK LORENZANA Members of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) have alleged that the salaries of Cuban doctors recently hired by the leftist government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may be higher than those of their Mexican counterparts, based on the previous salaries that they purportedly received when a large contingent of physicians from Cuba arrived
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum should buckle down to work and stop the illegal early campaigning, demanded Kenia López Rabadán, deputy coordinator of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) caucus in the Mexican Senate. On Friday, July 1, Sheinbaum flew to the southeast Mexican state of Tabasco where her party mate, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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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 MARK LORENZANA After two years of being held virtually because of the covid-19 pandemic, an estimated 250,000 attendees trooped to this year’s LGBTQ+ Pride March in Mexico City on Saturday, June 25. The parade, according to organizers, was the largest ever in Mexico City in terms of attendance. The parade began at 9 a.m. in downtown Mexico City’s Angel
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