By RICARDO CASTILLO Alfonso Romo Quits Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) chief of staff for the past two years, entrepreneur Alfonso Romo, turned in his resignation on Wednesday, Dec. 2. Speaking during his morning press conference on Thursday, Dec. 3, AMLO that Romo “will continue to be my liaison with the business sector.” “The truth is that he
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Wednesday, Dec. 2, that the government will purchase an initial stock of 250,000 covid-19 vaccines from the multinational pharmaceutical giant Pfizer as soon as the vaccine is approved by the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris). Speaking at his daily press conference at
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By RICARDO CASTILLO During his second annual State of the Nation Address on Tuesday, Dec. 1, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said that, thanks to the mega energy projects his government has implemented and the financial rescue of the state-run Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil interest, the country will cease importing gasoline in the year 2023. “This will happen
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Vote Postponed The Mexican Chamber of Deputies postponed the vote on the outsourcing regulation bill, which was slated to take place on Thursday, Nov. 26. Now, the debate over it will continue until sometime next week. The decision came after there was an exponential increase of speakers taking the podium from 70, on Monday, Nov. 23,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Businesses Hit the Outsourcing Panic Button The start of an Open Parliament to discuss Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed reform of outsourcing practices forced the leading business organization representatives to call for an emergency meeting with him that very same day. The president received the businessmen at the National Palace. Given the positioning of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While the Mexican Congress is on the verge of legalizing both the medicinal and recreational use of cannabis, not everyone in the country is in favor of that move. In fact, according to a study conducted by El Financiero newspaper this week, 58 percent of Mexicans are opposed to legalization of the drug. The
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Cienfuegos, Talk of the Town The release last week of former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos from an imminent trial in the United States by U.S. Attorney General William Barr continues to be the talk of the day in Mexico. The fact is is that nobody has the hard facts needed to have a sound opinion on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just days after Mexico became the fourth country worldwide to register more than 1 million confirmed covid-19 cases and more than 100,000 deaths from the disease, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) told other world leaders on Saturday, Nov. 21, to avoid shutdowns and other extreme measures to combat the spread of the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just days after reaching one million confirmed cases of covid-19 infections, the Mexican government reported Thursday, Nov. 19, that its accumulated death count from the disease had now surpassed 100,000. According to the Mexican Public Health Secretariat, as of late Thursday afternoon, 100,104 people had died of coronavirus infections, and there were 1,019,543 confirmed
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