By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Bangladeshi Ambassador to Mexico Abida Islam hosted a lavish, sit-down buffet luncheon for friends and colleagues at Mexico City’s María Isabel Sheraton Hotel on Thursday, March 31, to mark the 51st anniversary of her nation’s independence. “In 2021, Bangladesh commemorated its Golden Jubilee of Independence, but due to the covid-19 pandemic, we could not celebrate that event,”
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) announced the end of the federal government’s Full-Time School program – which provided educational support, additional class hours, and hot food to 3.6 million of the nation’s most impoverished children throughout some 27,000 schools around the nation – in favor of funding infrastructure projects, the controversial move has
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After arriving hours earlier in New York City to a mixed crowd of avid supporters and equally-avid opponents, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, Nov. 10, made a beeline straight to the UN Headquarters at United Nations Plaza to lecture the General Assembly on the evils of corruption, which he has repeatedly called “the
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The Mexican Government’s War on Hunger
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Just three weeks before Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo is due to end his six-year term of office, the western Mexican state is rife with social tensions and rampant violence that threaten to embroil the once-rising political star in a scandal that could bury his future ambitions permanently. Aureoles Conejo, who at the beginning
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In the nearly three years that leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been in power, an additional 3.8 million Mexicans have fallen into poverty, and of those, 55 percent have dropped below the extreme poverty line, according to a report issued Thursday, Aug. 5, by the National Council for the Evaluation of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A severe drop in overall family incomes, spurred on by the still-rampant covid-19 pandemic and the country’s successive economic contractions, has led to a rise in Mexico’s poverty rate and in the number of Mexicans facing food shortages, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). In 2020, in at least 5.5
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By KELIN DILLON Though Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP) has been rebounding after the economic effects of the covid-19 pandemic, the Center for Economic Studies of the Private Sector (CEESP) said that families in poverty are likely worse off because of it, only widening the country’s large inequality gap. The CEESP pointed out that many medium- and small-sized businesses were
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada — a longtime critic of and target of insults from current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — issued a tweet on Saturday, July 2, directed not at López Obrador, but rather to his followers, warning them to wake up and smell the coffee. “In the face of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The number of impoverished Mexicans with full-time jobs increased by roughly 10 percent in the first quarter of 2021, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) and the National Council of Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval). In a joint report published on Tuesday, May 18, the Inegi and Coneval stated
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