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Mexico’s Truck Driver Shortage Exacerbated by Covid Pandemic

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s longtime shortage of licensed, big-rig truck drivers has been exacerbated by the still-ongoing covid-19 pandemic, leading to a need for replace 50,000 drivers who have fallen off the work radar in the last two years, according to the country’s National Chamber of Freight Transportation (Canacar). Moreover, according to the International Road Transport Union

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Medicines Don’t Arrive, Yet Government Claims Success

By KELIN DILLON Despite more than 86.8 percent of drugs ordered from the United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS) by Mexico having not yet arrived at the necessary institutions, the federal government and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) have touted the purchase as a victory. According to the Mexican Secretariat of Health, only 25.8 million of 196.5 million

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