By RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Bill on Collision Course The bill to “reform labor outsourcing” sent to the Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) last week is definitely heading toward a collision course in Congress. Mexican Labor Secretary Luisa María Alcalde complied the bill with the helping hand of the heads of the Mexican Treasury (Hacienda),
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF About 20 percent of Mexico’s nearly 2 million square kilometers of territory are currently under the direct control of armed drug cartels and other criminal groups, according to a report released by the Washington Post on Thursday, Oct. 29. “In a classified study produced in 2018 but not previously reported, CIA analysts concluded that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. State Department lowered its travel advisory for Mexico from a Level 4 (red, do not travel) to a Level 3 (orange, reconsider travel) on Tuesday, Sept. 8. The new, downgraded advisory specifically warns U.S. citizens to “reconsider travel to Mexico due to covid-19,” and to “exercise increased caution in Mexico due to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO As Mexico tries to get back as close as possible to doing business the way it did just three months ago, the division of opinions of how to go about it is growing exponentially on all fronts. The big question is: How soon is soon enough to open back up for business? On the first front. there
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As Mexican health workers continue to struggle and risk their lives in the face of the growing Covid-19 pandemic because of the severe shortage of proper personal protective equipment, private sector companies of all stripes are pitching in to compensate for government shortfalls. Among the many firms donating part or all of their profits to purchase much-needed
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid-19, Imported From Italy Mexican Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell informed the public on Sunday, March 1, that there are now five confirmed cases of Covid-19 (also known as novel coronavirus), plus 11 suspected cases. Hence, he said, the nation is not in a state of emergency. López-Gatell said that the outbreak of the virus in Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Indigenous Design Rights International fashion design houses Louis Vuitton and Pineda Covalín are now in negotiations with the Mexican government to pay intellectual and creative rights to the country’s indigenous people after having copied some of their original designs without paying the corresponding copyrights. Legislative changes in Mexico, said Senator Susana Harp, include placing the indigenous communities
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … Punta Mita, Mexico’s premiere ultra-luxury ocean resort, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this December…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There are two facts of life about Mexican democracy: One, it is run and operated by an autonomous organization, the National Electoral Institute (INE), and two, it is one of the most expensive government-subsidized democracies in the world. At this time of year, it is relevant to take the above-mentioned facts into consideration because at the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Monday, Feb. 18, that the group of islands off the country’s Pacific coast known as the Islas Marías, which, in the 1940s were transformed from a high-security federal penitentiary into a low-security prison for nonviolent offenders with a minimum two-year sentence, will soon become a cultural center and nature reserve
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