PULSE NEWS MEXICO The cost of the construction of the still-abandoned, still-almost-impossible-to-get-to Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), one of the pet megaprojects of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López (AMLO), has doubled since work began on it in 2020. Originally slated to cost 12.479 billion pesos, the train, which is intended to provide travelers with affordable access to the AIFA, increased
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The nomination of Secretary of Public Education (SEP) Delfina Gómez Álvarez as the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party’s candidate for the governorship of the State of Mexico (EdoMéx) says a lot about the current state of politics in Mexico. The economic importance and electoral weight of the State of Mexico, just outside Mexico City,
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. “Tijuana Taxi” was one of my favorite tunes by Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass, or “Los Tijuanas,” as my late mother called them. But nobody is taking a taxi down in Tijuana these days. In fact, they are setting them on fire, as we see in this Fox News report: “Hundreds of Mexican troops arrived
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just two days after cartel violence wreaked mayhem in Mexico’s central states of Jalisco and Guanajuato, similar attacks gripped the country’s border city of Ciudad Juárez late Thursday, Aug. 11, leaving at least 11 people dead and six arrested, and Tijuana, on Friday, Aug. 12. Violence was also reported in the northern border towns of Mexicali, Rosarito
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO In a totally unveiled effort to force airlines to use his dysfunction and nearly-impossible-to-get-to Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), which most international and even major national airlines have so far avoided for safety concerns, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Thursday, Aug. 11, that he would limit the number of flights allowed to land and
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO A series of arrests of alleged drug cartel kingpins in the western Mexican states of Guanajuato and Jalisco set off a terrifying night of mayhem and destruction late Tuesday, Aug. 9. As residents ran for cover and sheltered in place, angry gangbangers set businesses and vehicles on fire in both states as an apparent act of retaliation.
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By KELIN DILLON On Aug. 3, 15 Mexican miners were trapped in a Coahuila coal mine after accidentally breaching a nearby water-filled well while working on the site; though five managed to escape, 10 still remain within the mine without any contact with the outside world and their chance of survival diminishing with every passing day. Now, the Mexican authorities
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OPINION By MEREL HAENEN Nearly 14 inconclusive years have passed since Dan Jeremeel Fernández Morán was last seen driving in the vicinity of Gomez Palacio, a small Mexican town around three hours north of Durango’s state capital, on Dec. 19, 2008. The day of his disappearance, his mother, Yolanda Morán Isaís, was expecting him to arrive at a nearby, local
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OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Am I happy that Latin American nations are electing leftists? Of course not, but it may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Down in Chile, leftist President Gabriel Boric, who came to power in March of this year, is already struggling in the polls. He is learning that changing a country’s constitution is
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By KELIN DILLON On Sunday, Aug. 7, five members of the LeBarón family – a group of Mormon relatives settled in Mexico’s Chihuahua desert who were thrust into the spotlight after the mass murder of nine members of ther family in November 2019 – were reportedly arrested for carrying high-caliber weaponry exclusively designated for use by the Mexican Army. The
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