By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican mountaineer Ándres Pérez Martínez and his son Andrés Pérez Maillard broke new records in Peru last month as the oldest and youngest alpinists to climb that South American country’s second-highest peak, Alpamayo. Led by his father, Pérez Maillard, who had already earned the title of the youngest Mexican to climb Mont Blanc and
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The ever-expanding scope of the Mexican cartels around the world in the last two decades has proven the great adaptability that these organizations possess and their success to develop a highly functional and complex operational business structure. Up until now, the North American market has been the most profitable for Mexican cartels, representing an average
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico placed as the country with the second-highest rate of capital flight in February, according to a report released earlier this week by the U.S. Treasury Department. In total, $11.531 billion in government bonds and corporate securities left the country in February, the Treasury Department said. Only Brazil registered a higher rate of capital
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico begins expanding its administration of vaccines against covid-19 in its population aged from 50 to 59, a study from Free University of Berlin mathematician Raúl Rojas found that Mexico has the second-worst strategy in the world against coronavirus, only behind Peru. The country has seen over 444,000 excess deaths than anticipated throughout the pandemic, according
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Mexico Designers Set to Show at Russian Fashion Week By KELIN DILLON A handful of Mexican designers will show their latest collections at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia (MBFWR) this upcoming Thursday, April 22, via curated fashion films, giving worldwide exposure to a choice selection of Mexican brands, set to be broadcast live on international publications like Vogue Russia. The
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO), Mexico could have prevented 190,000 covid-19 related deaths in the nation had it managed the pandemic in a more efficient manner. “Mexico’s Response to Covid-19: A Case Study” was carried out by the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) by commission from the WHO as
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Cartoon Characters Banned for Food Packaging in Mexico By AMILCAR RIERA Starting on April 1, packaged food items in Mexico bearing warning labels will no longer be able to showcase cartoon characters in advertisements and in their packaging. This will constitute the next step in the government’s food warning label law, implemented in 2020, to curb the consumption of junk
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XINHUA Great Britain and Mexico have signed an agreement aimed at securing the existing bilateral trade following the end of the Brexit transition period on Dec. 31, the British Department for International Trade (DIT) said Tuesday, Dec. 15. The UK-Mexico Trade Continuity Agreement (UKMCA) will provide certainty for British and Mexican businesses “trading the goods and services that make up
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XINHUA Mexico called on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank on Thursday, Oct. 15, to establish a support strategy for middle-income countries, saying they have no financial wiggle room to tackle the economic fallout caused by the covid-19 pandemic. Countries such as Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Bulgaria cannot afford to take the kind of emergency financial measures
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XINHUA The epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic “is moving from Europe toward the Americas,” Cristian Morales Fuhrimann, representative of the Pan-American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in Mexico, warned on Wednesday, April 22. The Americas have had “a bit more time to prepare for what is coming,” Morales Fuhrimann said via videoconference in Mexico City, noting the
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