The Mexico City police formed a human fence in front of the National Palace doors in an attempt to prevent protesting teachers from entering the federal executive’s headquarters
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By KELIN DILLON Less than a week after Mexican Judge Martín Santos ruled to suspend the Secretariat of Public Education’s (SEP) controversial pilot educational program on Monday, Sept. 26, Federal Judge Francisco Javier Rebolledo put yet another amparo against the SEP plan, stopping the program’s implementation into 960 public schools across Mexico in its tracks. The pilot program has been
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Just three days after introducing its controversial new public education plan — which prioritizes political indoctrination over academic study — and promising that it would initially only be used as a pilot program in 1,000 public schools, the administration of Mexico’s leftist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) .on Friday, Aug. 19, announced that, instead, it will
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By MARK LORENZANA After heaping praise on Delfina Gómez Álvarez for her tenure as head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in his daily morning press conference on Monday, Aug. 15, officially announced the appointment of Leticia Ramírez to take over the leadership of the SEP. López Obrador assured the audience at the
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO After two Jesuit priests were murdered in the northern state of Chihuahua on June 20, and numerous other members of the Catholic clergy in Mexico have come forth reporting cases of abuse and extortion by organized criminal groups, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) on Friday, July 8, called on its rival criminal organizations to “not mess
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) announced on Monday, June 20, vacant positions to be assigned in its headquarters in Mexico City, with salaries that pay up to 140,000 pesos a month. The SEP has opened up positions for general director of agricultural technological education and marine sciences, and general director of higher secondary education in agricultural technology and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF All Mexican public teachers who making less than 20,000 pesos will receive on average a 7.5 percent pay hike, Public Education Secretary Delfina Gómez announced Sunday, May 15, the country’s official Teacher’s Day. The new salary increases will be staggered in three segments of 3 percent, 2 percent and 1 percent, Gómez explained during
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XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday, Dec, 22, that booster vaccines against covid-19 will soon be applied to both health workers and education personnel, as it continues to be administered to those over 60 years old. “We have to continue moving forward, as we are doing with booster vaccines for senior citizens, health personnel and teachers,”
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 30, more than 25 million Mexican students and 2 million teachers finally returned to in-person classes after more than 17 months away from educational centers due to the effects of the covid-19 pandemic — though not without widespread uncertainty and controversy around the move. First, the National Union of Parents (UNFP) noted a distinct
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By KELIN DILLON On Saturday, Aug. 28, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) SUV was held at a standstill by protesting members of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CTNE) teachers’ union for the second day in a row while on tour in Chiapas, with the group demanding for him to listen to their demands and reopen negotiations. López
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