By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) flew to Cuba on Sunday, May 8, to meet with that island nation’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel. During his daylong visit, López Obrador, who was accompanied by his top military brass, placed flowers at a monument for Cuban poet José Martí, who is considered the ideologue of the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Former Ukranian Ambassador to Mexico (from January 2012 to October 2020) Ruslán M. Spírin, who currently works for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky, asked Pulse News Mexico on Thursday, Feb. 5, to help diffuse a message from Zelensky asking for support. The message, in which Zelensky appeals directly for global
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON After a brutal rebuff of his constitutional energy reform by opposition members of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies this past April, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is on a quest for vengeance against these so-called “traitors of the nation” – a warpath, it seems, that will now put opponents to the energy reform, both politicians
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Russia the Peacekeeper
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had a 52-minute telephone conference with U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday, April 29, to discuss the surging immigration problem along the binational border, just as the United States is poised to lift the covid-era Title 42 ruling that has blocked migrants from crossing into the country
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Joe Biden administration on Thursday, April 21, announced that it will simplify the legal processing of Ukrainian refugees seeking asylum from Europe, but will no longer allow migrants from that war-torn country to enter from Mexico. The new streamlined program, due to take effect on Monday, April 25, will fast-track some 100,000 refugee
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its April World Economic Outlook (WEO) report cut its economic growth expectation for Mexico in 2022 to 2.0 percent, 0.8 percentage points lower than it had forecast in January. In the diagnosis of January of this year, the agency had already slashed its estimate for Mexican 2022 growth
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) repeated promises to keep fuel prices down and ongoing tax discounts from the nation’s Finance Secretariat, gasoline prices in Mexico are now higher than in the United States. According to data from the consulting firm PetroIntelligence, regular gasoline sold Thursday in Mexico at an average of 21.51
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While most of the civilized world was busy condemning Vladimir Putin for his alleged war crimes and attempted genocide of the Ukrainian people on Wednesday, April 6, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) preferred to use the bully pulpit of his daily press conference to instead condemn members of the U.S. Congress for “daring” to
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