Cuban Doctors Won’t Fix Mexico’s Aching Public Health System
In 2021, Mexico’s national public health sector failure reached record levels as 22 million prescriptions could not be filled
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AMLO Government Spends 1.6 Billion Pesos for Baseball Stadiums
And the government is not done yet, as Sedatu launched a tender to build a new baseball stadium in Tepic, Nayarit
Read moreThe Forgotten Thread of Huichol Yarn Art
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Most people familiar with Mexico know about Huichol art, the vividly colored, sometimes-hypnotic, psychedelia-style creations of the indigenous people of the central states of Jalisco, Durango, Zacatecas and Nayarit, known in their own language as the Wixáritari. Who has not been dumbstruck by the intricate, spiritually significant and brilliantly hued beaded folk art that now adorns museums
Read moreHurricane Roslyn Touches down in Nayarit as Category 3, Three Dead
PULSE NEWS MEXICO After strengthening to a major Category 4 storm off the western coast of Mexico late Saturday, Oct. 22, Hurricane Roslyn made landfall early Sunday, Oct. 23, in the coastal state of Nayarit as a Category 3, according to the National Water Commission (Conagua). Roslyn hit the town of Santiago Ixcuintla, Nayarit, with sustained winds of 240 kilometers per
Read moreInternational Medical Specialists to Receive 53,569 Pesos per Month
By KELIN DILLON Less than a week after Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) General Director Zoé Robledo announced that Mexico would be hiring 749 international medical specialists to come and work in rural areas of the country, Robledo revealed during a press conference on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 8., that each of these contracted specialists will be paid 53,569
Read moreCuban Doctors in Mexico May Be Victims of Human Trafficking
By MARK LORENZANA The arrival of Cuban doctors in Mexico will continue as long as there is a demand for specialists, said Zoé Robledo, director of Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS), as more Cuban physicians were deployed in the country on Tuesday, Aug. 19 — this time in the Mexican states of Guerrero and Campeche. Around 50 Cuban doctors arrived
Read morePAN: Cuban Doctors Paid More than Mexican Counterparts
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
Read moreRemaking Mexico in Cuba’s Image
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After more than three and a half years of the same old spiel (“neoliberals are to blame for everything that’s wrong with the country,” “the conservative press are all unscrupulous liars,” and that most absurd claim of all, “my government is not corrupt”), it seems that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is finally beginning
Read moreMexican Supreme Court Condemns, but Won’t Ban, Bullfighting
PULSE NEWS MEXICO After a “corrida” of on-again-off-again legal bouts over whether to allow bullfighting to continue to be practiced in Mexico, the nation’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) on Wednesday, June 15, ruled that, while it condemned the sport as inhumane to animals, it would not ban it. Both bullfighting and cockfighting, considered traditional sports in Mexico, “inflict unnecessary,
Read moreNayarit Regional Museum Presents Cora Photo Exhibit
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Regional Museum of Nayarit, part of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), will open on Friday, April 8, a photo exhibit of the Cora (or Náayeri) indigenous people, an ethnic group that predominates in that northwestern state, showing some of their unique traditions , especially during the Christian Easter Holy Week.
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