PULSE NEWS MEXICO Four days after at least 10 men were trapped in the collapsed El Pinabete coal mine in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila, with prospects of their survival dimming rapidly as rescue workers have been unable to drain a 40-meter flood of water that has filled the mine, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Sunday, Aug. 7,
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO As a massive crude oil fire in the Cuban port of Matanzas continued to burn for a second day, spreading to yet another storage tank and threatening the island nation’s already-limited energy supply, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Saturday, Aug. 6, announced that he would be sending humanitarian assistance in the form of military
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS John Ackerman, an American law professor who decided to switch out his U.S. passport for a Mexican substitute and join the leftist bandwagon of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) own personal vision of pseudo-democracy, has just gotten a taste of what AMLO’s Brave New World of dictatorial socialism is really about. After having been rejected
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday, Aug. 5, announced the his administration would no longer provide financial subsidies to offset the high cost of premium gasoline. In March of this year, after global oil prices skyrocketed as a result of the war in Ukraine, López Obrador ordered the Treasury to provide a nationwide Special
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday, Aug. 5, said that the country’s lithium reserves will be designated for use by the nation’s auto industry. Speaking during his daily press conference at the National Palace, AMLO said the newly established state-run lithium company, the Mexican Lithium Agency (AMLito, and yes, that is really the name).
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Redemptorist leaders, daffodils in love with their self-proclaimed moral beauty, are not responsible for the consequences of their actions. This ironclad truth was the subject of “Politics as a Vocation,” a famed conference offered by German sociologist Max Weber in January 1919 in Munich . His words then reverberate in our current time. The circumstances when
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Never mind that he has absolutely no diplomatic experience or training. Never mind that he knows nothing about the current armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. And never mind that he has set as his “chief priority” the objective of making Wikipedia pay more heed to Mexican history (rather than such petty issues as bilateral trade,
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Yet another Mexican journalist was gunned down on Tuesday, Aug. 2, becoming the 13th reporter killed in the country this year. Ernesto Méndez, editorial director of the Tu Voz media outlet and reporter for Zona Franca and Correo newspapers, was murdered inside a bar in Guanajuato’s Colonia Cerro Prieto. He was the 13th journalist killed in Mexico,
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XINHUA The Mexican government will take additional measures to counter rising inflation as part of the package against inflation and famine that took effect in May, Secretary of Finance Rogelio Ramirez de la O announced here Tuesday, Aug. 2. That package consisted of freezing the price on 24 basic products that Mexicans consume on a regular basis. However, despite that
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The famed Mexican Norteño band Los Tigres del Norte is slated to perform in the capital’s main plaza Zócalo on Sept. 15, and in order to accommodate the so-called “Franciscan Austerity” of leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the group said Wednesday, Aug. 3, that they will offer his administration a “special discount.” The live, open-air
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