By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Energy Control Center (Cenace) has been planning strategically timed blackouts across the country to help reduce energy consumption following a low supply of natural gas, which have now been affecting parts of Mexico that were never planned to lose power. Northern Mexico mainly uses gas to generate its energy, and the Texas pipeline that brings
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By KELIN DILLON Despite growing opposition and advice to the contrary from both national and international medical specialists, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has decided to continue on as planned with his controversial National Vaccine Strategy, which now targets rural communities as the first priority for vaccination over Mexico’s urban epicenters of the coronavirus outbreak, like Mexico City.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Gags on Twitter and Facebook? A bill to “regulate the performance of social networks” in Mexico is due to be introduced in Congress this week by Senator Ricardo Monreal. The proposed bill would regulate social network companies like Twitter and Facebook on a national scale and would prevent them from censuring accounts of people or entities that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS) announced it will convert 139 of its hospitals throughout the country to help battle the coronavirus pandemic and maximize capacity, following several brushes with near-full occupancy. The IMSS said it would be appropriating 1.607 billion pesos to purchase medical supplies and equipment to distribute throughout the designated hospitals, all
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City will remain in the covid-19 red high-risk category for yet another week, until the capital’s surging number of coronavirus cases begins to subside, Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said, Friday, Jan. 29, Department stores and shopping malls in the city will remain closed at least through Feb. 8, she said. Meanwhile, in the neighboring
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced on Wednesday, Jan. 13, that Mexico City would further increase its number of hospital beds after several hospitals reached full 100 percent capacity Monday, Jan. 11. Between Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx), 50 hospitals reached maximum occupancy at the start of the week, reaching a total of
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By KELIN DILLON A documented 515 Mexican police officers were killed in the line of duty in 2020. The figures come from Cause in Common, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping the Mexican government responsible and honest with its citizens. According to the report, an average of 43 officers were killed in the line of duty monthly in Mexico during
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By KELIN DILLON International attention was brought to the Mexican government’s mishandling of nation’s covid resurgence in a New York Times article published on Monday, Dec. 21, by Natalie Kitroeff. The Mexican government had reassured its constituents that Mexico City had not reached case levels high enough to re-enter the red zone during a briefing on Dec. 4. However, according
Read moreXINHUA Mexican authorities said on Friday, Dec. 18, that they would re-impose lockdown measures in Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx) amid surging covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. With hospital capacity close to 75 percent, a level similar to that of June, and year-end festivities around the corner, the measures are aimed at reducing the spread and curbing the
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By KELIN DILLON In Mexico City’s upscale Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec, a party with over 100 attendees was broken up by authorities early in the morning of Sunday, Dec. 14, for violating citywide mandates on large gatherings. In a video uploaded to social media, the partygoers were seen being forced out of an illegally operated basement venue at Palmas 810
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