By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF An unmasked Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) appeared live in his daily presser Monday, Jan. 17, saying that he no longer had symptoms of covid-19 (which he was confirmed to have contracted for the second time exactly one week earlier). During the conference, AMLO said that he “cleared” the covid contagion and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Several major Mexican insurance companies announced this week that they will no longer cover covid-19 patients who have not received at least one dose of the vaccine against the disease. Sura, for example, stated that as of Jan. 10, any insured person of legal age who does not have at least one dose of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite having confirmed one day earlier that he had contracted the covid-19 virus for a second time, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) made a cameo appearance on the daily presidential press conference on Tuesday, Jan. 11, via a video. On the video, AMLO reported that he was feeling generally well, with only
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OPINION By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Like everything else with an uncertain future, predictions for the year ahead are just that: prognoses that could or could not come to pass. That said, and with no crystal ball in hand, here are four broad predictions that most likely could be agreed upon by most in the Western Hemisphere for 2022: emerging
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has a handy way of dealing with facts and figures he doesn’t like: He simply rewrites them. Yes, the president’s “otros datos” (“different data”) stratagem is a magic wand he can wave over unpleasantries like inflation, economic downturn, crime, corruption and anything else he doesn’t like to make them
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A slew of multiple flight cancellations due to covid-19 infections of Aeroméxico flight attendants and pilots caused chaos at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) over the weekend, as thousands of passengers were left stranded. According to the Federal Consumer Protection Agency (Profeco), between Friday, Jan. 7, and Sunday, Jan. 9, the nation’s flagship
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just as confirmed covid-19 cases in Mexico passed the 4-million mark and covid deaths surpassed 300,000, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday, Jan. 7, announced that the country’s health regulator, the Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), had granted emergency authorization for the use of Merck’s covid treatment pill, Molnupiravir.
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XINHUA Mexico welcomed 31 million international tourists in 2021, representing an increase of 28.1 percent compared to the comparable number for 2020, according to preliminary estimates from the Tourism Secretariat. In a statement on Friday, Dec. 31, Mexican Tourism Secretary Miguel Torruco said that the country’s tourism sector is undergoing a “strong recovery,” after noting that 24.2 million international travelers
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XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday, Dec, 22, that booster vaccines against covid-19 will soon be applied to both health workers and education personnel, as it continues to be administered to those over 60 years old. “We have to continue moving forward, as we are doing with booster vaccines for senior citizens, health personnel and teachers,”
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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