By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Four former national heads of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) warned over the weekend that voting for leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform would constitute a step backwards for Mexico and the possible extinction of the party itself. “What should it matter if the PRI is in government or
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By KELIN DILLON Because Mexico has lost some 662,000 hectares of primary forest and 4.2 million hectares of tree cover over the past 18 years, organizations like Greenpeace have revealed that more than 15 percent of the nation’s primary forest has been put at risk by illegal deforestation to create fields or pastures and illicit logging practices. “Illegal logging in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Saturday, Oct. 16, that his government will begin legalizing undocumented vehicles (mostly, imported from the United States without appropriate permissions) in the country’s northern border states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Sonora, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Baja California Sur. Each car owner will be required to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Regardless of whether his controversial electric energy reform — currently in Congress awaiting passage — is approved, there will be no government concessions for the exploration and exploitation of Mexico’s lithium reserves, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Thursday, Oct. 7. During his daily morning press conference at the National Palace, AMLO warned
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In the southwest corner of Mexico’s northern state of Sonora, the remnants of one of the country’s oldest ethnic groups can still be found: the Yaqui people, who despite a tumultuous relationship with the government throughout modern Mexican history, have remained standing and constantly fighting for their land and basic human rights. The indigenous group,
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By KELIN DILLON The newly sworn-in governors of Mexican states Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Sonora, Campeche, Nayarit and San Luis Potosí have raised concerns about the precarious financial situations of the states they inherited, noting the lack of funds present to pay payroll, pensions and providers. The National Action Party’s (PAN) Governor of Chihuahua María Eugenia Campos made note of a 11
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The prestigious Sonoran modern dance company Antares is slated to perform a limited presentation of one of its most famous repertoires, “Las Buenas Maneras” (“Good Manners”), at Mexico City’s Raúl Flores Canelo Theater inside the National Center for the Arts on Oct. 1, 2 and 3. It will be the first live performance by
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XINHUA At least 16 people were killed on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 2, when a passenger bus and two trailer trucks collided on the Sonoyta-San Luis Rio Colorado highway in Mexico’s northern state of Sonora, the state’s Attorney General’s Office said. Another 22 people were injured, six seriously, the office said on Twitter. The National Guard reported that the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS At age 48, Dante Carbajal Ocampo is not what you might expect in an oncological gynecologist. Unlike the classic stereotype of a jaded, moody, disinterested, keep-your-emotional-distance oncologist (a recent Medscape report said that at least 78 percent of oncologists experience serious professional burnout and depression within their first five years of practice, and 10 percent said that
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The future of Mexico’s centralist National Institutional Party (PRI) will be contingent to a single concept: loyalty. The PRI lost all the governorships in its power in June for two reasons: the depth of its discredit (derived more from its arrogance than from the failure of the governments it led), and the lack of loyalty of
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