OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO These days, the political gossip churners in Mexico have a new favorite target: Federal Deputy Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, alias “Alito” (short for Alejandro), who is the both the current president of the once-mighty Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, which ruled the country without interruptions from 1929 to 2000), and the leader of the remaining 70 PRI deputies in
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday, June 1, that, after careful scientific and medical analysis, his administration will most likely suspend the use of Daily Savings Time (DST) in Mexico. The decision, which comes on the heels of the U.S. Congress voting in March to make Daylight Savings Time permanent starting in 2023, was based
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XINHUA Mexico and Ecuador made “substantial progress” toward a Productive Integration Agreement in the ninth round of negotiations held between Monday, May 23, to Friday, May 27, in Quito, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fishing said Monday, May 30. “The negotiating teams of both countries held high-level technical meetings in which significant progress was made with
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Over the weekend, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) paid a visit to the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, home of infamous drug lord and founder of the Sinaloa Cartel Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, currently in a U.S. high-security prison on 17 counts of homicide, drug trafficking, conspiracy, organized crime against health, money laundering, homicide and
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO Just a week before it is set to start, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has yet to decide whether he will attend the June 6 Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California. Over this weekend, AMLO had several opportunities to make a statement as to whether he will attend, but instead kept repeating
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Zoé Robledo, director of Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS), announced on Tuesday, May 24, an open call to recruit and hire medical specialists for 13,765 unfilled positions across the country. Speaking during the morning press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Robledo said that the states with the greatest need for specialists
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just weeks before the summer season begins and after the implementation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) crackdown on private, green energy production, Mexico’s National Center for Energy Control (Cenace), which is in charge of controlling the electrical system, has announced that the country should brace for a series of widespread blackouts in
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO Old habits die hard! Mexico’s democratic political system is currently undergoing a return to an age-old political habit once known as “la sucesión” (“the succession”), in which one candidate was picked to replace the man in power. This succession routine became a political mainstay back in the days of one-party rule, and was ruthlessly enforced by
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s long-promised Patria vaccine against covid19 infections, announced as an emergency measure by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in the spring of 2020, is nowhere close to getting into people’s arms. According to government sources, the vaccine is currently in phase 2 testing — there are five requires testing stages for a vaccine’s
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