By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After mining mogul Alberto Bailleres, Mexico’s fourth richest man, died Thursday, Feb. 2, at age 90 of natural causes, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) paid an unexpected homage to the billionaire on Friday, Feb. 3, saying that “while we did not always see eye-to-eye” with Bailleres, the two had maintained a 29-year
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XINHUA Mexico received a record $51.594 billion in remittances in 2021, according to a report released Tuesday, Feb. 2, by the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico). The amount of money that Mexicans living abroad sent home to their families last year was 27.1 percent higher than the amount in 2020, when the country received $40.605 in remittances, Banxico data showed.
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued its strongest travel advisory level against travel to Mexico on Monday, Jan. 31. In a statement released Monday, the CDC issued its highest travel advisories — Level Four: Very High — against 12 countries, including Mexico, Brazil and Singapore, citing high rates of covid-19
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF For the third straight year — all under the watch of leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — Mexico’s economy contracted in 2021, representing a second technical recession. According to the government’s own data, provided on Monday, Jan. 31, by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), the country’s economy contracted for
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE What’s going on in Mexico City’s Colonia Juárez? How is it possible that so many new restaurants are opening in the midst of the covid-19 pandemic and in such close proximity to each other? Luís Peña’s story is one that many restaurant owners in the capital could tell. Mexico City, the fifth-largest city in the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) must investigate Public Health Undersecretary and federal covid-19 czar Hugo López-Gatell for his alleged responsibility for the crime of homicide during the covid-19 pandemic, a specialized federal control judge determined on Wednesday, Jan. 19. The judge also said that López-Gatell should be investigated for “his lack of duty of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico broke another record of daily covid cases on Tuesday, Jan. 18, with close to 50,000 new cases registered by the Public Health Secretariat (SSA). In total, the SSA reported 49,343 new covid-19 infections and 320 deaths in one 24-hour period. That raises the total number of confirmed cases in the country since the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Undersecretary of Public Health and federal covid-19 czar Hugo López-Gatell said Tuesday, Jan. 18, that, for now at least, the acquisition and administration of the newly approved anti-covid pills will remain in the hands of the government. “Commercial registration authorizations will not, at this time, be granted for their use or administration,” he
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — More than four months have passed since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced, in his most recent visit to the region, the implementation of a Support Plan for the central Mexican state, which was suppose to transform the future of the wartorn state by promoting the development of its inhabitants and guaranteeing
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