By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Undersecretary of Public Health Hugo López-Gatell said Saturday, Nov. 27, that global concerns over the new Omicron covid-19 variant are exaggerated and that “there is no scientific evidence” that the strain is more deadly. López-Gatell, who is Mexico’s covid-19 czar and who, for months, famously recommended against the use of face masks to
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XINHUA A U.S.-bound migrant caravan that has been traveling on foot through Mexico for more than a month continued its slow trek over the weekend through the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, with far fewer people than it started out with. Comprising between 4,000 to 5,000 mostly Central American and Haitian migrants at one point, by Friday, Nov. 26, it
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s fourth wave of covid-19 infections, which Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela on Saturday, Nov. 19, admitted is now on the nation’s doorsteps (although he said this in strict confidentiality on a live internet feed, adding that it should not be leaked to the press), could, over the course of the next
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Apparently oblivious to the fact that his words were streaming live on the internet Friday, Nov, 19, Mexican Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela told attendees to the International Congress of Mental Health in Acapulco that indicators suggest that Mexico will soon enter a fourth wave of covid-19 infections. “Today, we are seeing early signs
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As of Friday, Nov. 19, all Mexican minors between the ages of 15 and 17 will be eligible to receive vaccinations against covid-19, the country’s covid czar, the Public Health Secretariat’s Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo López-Gatell, said Tuesday, Nov. 16. Up until now, only high-risk minors and those with compromising pre-existing
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s longtime shortage of licensed, big-rig truck drivers has been exacerbated by the still-ongoing covid-19 pandemic, leading to a need for replace 50,000 drivers who have fallen off the work radar in the last two years, according to the country’s National Chamber of Freight Transportation (Canacar). Moreover, according to the International Road Transport Union
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexicans have always believed in long weekends, and next weekend is slated to last an entire week, starting on Wednesday, Nov. 10, and running through Tuesday, Nov. 16. The nation’s seven-day, get-ready-for-Christmas shopping extravaganza, known as Buen Fin (Good Weekend), is Mexico’s answer to the United States’ post-Thanksgiving Black Friday sale. Programmed to coincide with the Mexican
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By VAYUNAMU BAWA After more than 19 grueling months of limited interchange along the U.S.-Mexico border, tourists and other nonessential travelers from Mexico will for the first time since March 2020 be allowed to cross into the United States starting on Monday, Nov. 8. But there are caveats. All persons 18 and over must present proof of full covid-19 vaccinations
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER There is no doubt that the Mexican government’s hasty declaration that the covid-19 pandemic is over was motivated by politics and economic interests, not medical science. The administration of leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) didn’t even wait until the daily coronavirus death toll had dropped before issuing a jump-the-gun covid all-clear “green” infection risk
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