XINHUA At least one person died and 15 others were injured in an explosion near an illegal tap on a pipeline belonging to Mexico’s state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company in the central state of Puebla, local authorities said on Sunday, Oct. 31. Puebla Governor Miguel Barbosa said in a press conference that the accident occurred near a liquefied petroleum
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Hurricane Rick hit Mexico’s Pacific coastal states of Guerrero and Michoácan late Sunday, Oct. 24, unleashing heavy rains and winds. The Category 2 hurricane also produced heavy rains in Colima, southern Jalisco and western Oaxaca, plus downpours the southwest of the State of Mexico, Morelos, Puebla and Mexico City, according to Mexico’s National Meteorological
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Federal Deputy Sandra Nelly Cadena Santos, from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, was arrested on Wednesday, Sept. 22, for the possession and alleged sale of unlawful weapons. Cadena Santos, who represents the state of Puebla, and her husband, a former federal police officer, were arrested in their
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By KELIN DILLON A total of 17 teams from Liga MX, Mexico’s top football division, were hit with sanctions of 177.6 million pesos by the Federal Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) for alleged monopolistic practices and putting a salary cap on the league’s women’s vision. The clubs sanctioned include América, Pachuca, Mazatlán, Guadalajara, Santos Laguna, Tigres, Toluca, Pumas, Monterrey, Necaxa, Atlante
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — One aspect of the covid-19 pandemic and its subsequent global economic that has universal impacted countries around the world is worker desperation. Here in Mexico, unemployment and underemployment have skyrocketed, and more than a million pay-rolled workers lost their job in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. And to make matters worse, now unscrupulous
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By KELIN DILLON As the Mexican government continues its quest to give state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) majority control over the nation’s energy market, it has now closed a number of privately owned terminals used to import fuel across the country. In the past month and a half alone, three terminals in Tuxpan, Puebla and Hermosillo were closed by
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Africam Safari, Mexico’s premiere open-air animal park just outside of Puebla, announced the birth of its first Caribbean flamingo chick of the season on Sunday, Aug. 1. The tiny flamenco chick was hatched on July 26, after 31 days of incubation and has currently weighs 136 grams. (The normal incubation period for a Caribbean flamingo
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since it opened its first restaurant here in Mexico City back in 2014, the Puebla-based Entre Fuegos group has been dedicated to bringing the true tastes of one of Mexico’s most culturally rich and historic states to capital consumers. From that most classic of Pueblan dishes, mole poblano, to deep-fried pelonas stuffed with black beans,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just 24 hours after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) decried a report in Reforma noting that 56 human rights activists had been killed so far during his presidency as “false” and “a political conspiracy aimed at discrediting his administration,” the government’s own Secretariat of the Interior (Gobernación, or Segob) pointed out that the newspaper’s figures
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By KELIN DILLON Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Mexico’s government-owned petroleum company, is reportedly on track to have a record-breaking amount of stolen gas in the year 2021, thanks to Mexico’s “huachicoleros,” meaning gas thieves. Since the official record of gas thefts in the country in 2011, the huachicoleros reportedly upped their efforts 3,108 percent between 2019 and May of 2021. Pemex’s
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