By KELIN DILLON One of Mexico’s ejidos, a piece of land commonly owned and farmed by the surrounding native community, won a major battle for its livelihood when federal judges granted an amparo (habeas corpus appeal) against the under-construction $550 million Tula-Villa de Reyes gas pipeline going through Jilotepec, State of Mexico (Edoméx), preventing its further construction through the ejido’s
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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 JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A month has passed since the Tula River, located in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, overflowed and collapsed its banks, causing the deaths of 15 people and leaving thousands if Mexicans homeless. The flooding took place the night of Sept. 6, when the season’s heavy rains and the government’s poor management of drainage systems,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Happy Mexican Independence Bicentennial Anniversary! Sure, most Mexicans still consider Sept. 16, 1810, as the nation’s Independence Day, but in point of fact, the country really gained its sovereignty more than 11 years later. And so, Monday, Sept. 27, is the day that Mexico as an independent nation actually turns 200. For all practical and festooning purposes,
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A massive landslide Tlalnepantla, in the central Mexican State of Mexico (Edoméx) near the capital, on Friday, Sept. 10, left at least 1 person dead and 10 missing. The landslide was caused when tons of giant boulders began to slide down a steep hillside, possibly triggered by heavy rains and a 7.1.magnitude earthquake earlier
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Move over Miniso and Mumuso. There’s a new kid on the low-cost variety and retail chain store block, and unlike some Asian brands that try to disguise their Chinese origins by having all their staff greet customers with a Nipponese “aregato,” this company is proud of its roots. The new Ideën Stores brand is a 100 percent Mexican-owned
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By KELIN DILLON Heavy storms across the central states of Mexico on the evening of Monday, Sept. 6, caused massive floods throughout the region, resulting in the deaths of 17 hospital patients and widespread damage. In Hidalgo, the state north of Mexico City, a hospital run by the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), reported water levels up to a
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By KELIN DILLON New reports have revealed that Mexico’s in-power leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) used 64 shell companies to issue 2,445 invoices totaling to 31 million pesos over the years, a practice it has long admonished and lambasted opponents for doing. Morena has allegedly used these ghost invoicing companies since the party’s creation in 2014, beginning the practice just
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A strike by distributors and commissioners of one of Mexico’s largest gas unions, begun on Monday, Aug. 2, will continue until a price agreement is worked out with the government, according to industry leaders. The closure of natural (LP) gas distribution stations given the Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration’s arbitrary decision over the
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