By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Public Education Secretariat (SEP) announced Saturday, Oct. 9, that all students of basic education return to face-to-face classes in November, given the fact that very few covid-19 infections have been reported so far this school year. Therefore, SEP Secretary Delfina Gómez said that all kindergarten, primary and secondary students will be required to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s nationwide back-to-in-person classes on Monday, Aug. 30, got a miserable grade in terms of turnout. Of the 25 million public kindergarten, elementary, middle school and high school students expected to show up for classes at the start of the week after more than 17 months of closure due to the covid-19 pandemic, only
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER It’s a well-known fact of life: What starts out badly inevitably ends up worse. In the case of Mexico’s now-globally spotlighted Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE), it all began on Saturday, Aug. 7, with the abrupt and unjustified dismissal of renowned author and historian Jorge F. Hernández from his post as the cultural attaché of Mexico’s embassy
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By JESSICA GUERRERO Last week, Mexico’s Public Health Secretariat acknowledged that the country had surpassed the 3-million-case mark of covid-19 cases. And those were just the confirmed cases. Because of low testing rates and questionable recordkeeping practices, many national and international medical experts estimate that the real number of covid cases in Mexico could be 25 or 30 times higher
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In-person classes for grade-level students will return in Mexico starting on Monday, June 7, the Public Education Secretariat (SEP) announced Friday, May 28. The face-to-face classes to end the 2020-2021 school year will be conducted in accordance with all necessary covid-19 protocols, and will be voluntary and staggered in order to maintain social distancing
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Thursday, May 20, the creation of a national post-secondary level education program in sports training. “We are going to create a career, a profession, at the upper secondary level, for the training of sports technicians,” AMLO said during his daily morning press conference. “Nationwide, there will be
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By ADRIANA GARCÍA VALDERRAMA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said that he foresees that as soon as all the nation’s education personnel gets vaccinated against the covid-19 virus, classes will return to “normal” to conclude the 2020-2021 school year with live classes. According to Mexican Secretary of Public Education Delfina Gómez, vaccination is already underway in Aguascalientes, Baja
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By RICARDO CASTILLO MLK III at Guerrero Homage Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of U.S. civil rights activist MLK, Jr., was the keynote speaker Sunday, Feb. 14, at the homage paid to the memory of Mexico’s second president, Vicente Guerrero. Guerrero was killed 190 years ago at Cuilápa, Oaxaca. Guerrero, a descendant of African slaves brought to Mexico,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ebrard and Sullivan Talk Migration A new era in Mexican-U.S. diplomatic relations began Wednesday, Jan. 6, with a video conference between Foreign Relations Secretary (SRE) Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón and President-elect Joe Biden’s National Security spokesman, Jake Sullivan. Both agreed that the most important issue in a new bilateral agenda is to collaborate in order to have a
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Red Alert for Three Kings’ Day There could be no more powerful image over the Christmas and New Year holidays than the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) doctors working out of covid-laden patient wards telling everyone, “We don’t want to see you here. Please, stay home.” Their pleas, however, fell on deaf ears. On Tuesday, Jan. 5,
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