Supreme Court Admits 30 More Appeals against Plan B
According to the municipalities, certain reforms in the electoral law violate their budgetary autonomy, specifically by “limiting social communication spending to 0.1 percent.”
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PRI Candidate for Coahuila Is Frontrunner in Unofficial Polls
Ricardo Monreal, leader of the Morena majority bloc in the Senate, criticized Mejía Berdeja’s resignation from his post and his subsequent defection to the PT as its official gubernatorial candidate in Coahuila
Read moreFamilies of Coahalia Miners Accept Government’s Delayed Rescue Plan
By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 29, the families of 10 Mexican miners – who have been trapped inside a flooded mine in Sabinas, Coahuila, without outside contact since Aug. 3 – accepted the Mexican government’s proposal to recover their relatives’ bodies though an up to 11-month-long excavation process and essentially accepting the miners’ lives as already lost. The National
Read moreWho’s Really to Blame for the Sabinas Mine Tragedy?
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since 10 coal miners in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila were trapped 60 meters underground in a flooded mine on Aug. 3, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been looking for a scapegoat to blame the tragedy on. From originally trying to pass the responsibility on to the miners themselves for not following
Read more10 Miners Remain Trapped in Coahuila Coal Mine
By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) reported on Thursday, Aug. 4, that 30 members of the Immediate Response and Disaster Team, along with six Special Forces divers, were deployed to Sabinas in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, to rescue 10 workers there who were trapped on Wednesday, Aug. 3, in a 60-meter-deep mine after a landslide. Laura Velázquez,
Read moreAt Least 10 People Trapped In Coahuila Mine Collapse
PULSE NEWS MEXICO At least 10 people remained trapped as the result of a landslide at the Las Conchas mine, located in Sabinas, in the carboniferous region of the Mexican state of Coahuila on Wednesday, Aug. 3, authorities reported. The collapse occurred in one of the shafts of a coal pit when the miners were working. After the collapse, the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Pressure to Restart Work Pressure on the Mexican government to get the economy going again is mounting from all sides. Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer, who is responsible for determining which municipalities and industries can reopen, however, does not yet have an answer. “In general there are approximately 990 municipalities applying to restart, but only about a third
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