By RICARDO CASTILLO Mothers and Doctors The Mexican Public Health Secretariat, the National Social Security Institute (IMSS) and the National Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) reported that the 9,600 female doctors on call due to the covid-19 spent Sunday, May 10, Mother’s Day, on duty. The report was made by the nongovernmental organization Mom Doctors,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to a report published in the New York Times (NYT) on Friday, May 8, Mexico is dramatically underreporting “hundreds, possibly thousands,” of deaths from the novel coronavirus pandemic, “dismissing anxious officials, who have tallied more than three times as many fatalities in the capital than the government publicly acknowledges.” The report, based on
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Protest, But No Tagging, Please Given the increasing number of feminist protest marches arriving at Mexico’s National Palace, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent a stern message to all those groups on Monday, Feb. 17. The protestors are not just extremely noisy, but are committing acts of vandalism wherever they pass through, which includes looting and
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s Economy Shielded In one of the multiple events of the four-day-long 31st Reunion of Ambassadors and Consuls 2020 organized by the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) from Jan. 7 to Jan. 10, Treasury Secretary Arturo Herrera took the forum as an opportunity to claim that Mexico – one year after Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO)
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