AMLO Government Spends 1.6 Billion Pesos for Baseball Stadiums
And the government is not done yet, as Sedatu launched a tender to build a new baseball stadium in Tepic, Nayarit
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Cuban Doctors in Mexico May Be Victims of Human Trafficking
By MARK LORENZANA The arrival of Cuban doctors in Mexico will continue as long as there is a demand for specialists, said Zoé Robledo, director of Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS), as more Cuban physicians were deployed in the country on Tuesday, Aug. 19 — this time in the Mexican states of Guerrero and Campeche. Around 50 Cuban doctors arrived
Read morePAN: Cuban Doctors Paid More than Mexican Counterparts
By MARK LORENZANA Members of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) have alleged that the salaries of Cuban doctors recently hired by the leftist government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may be higher than those of their Mexican counterparts, based on the previous salaries that they purportedly received when a large contingent of physicians from Cuba arrived
Read moreAMLO Asks UIF to Investigate Nieto’s Financial Assets
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday, Dec. 8, that the country’s Public Function Secretariat (SFP) should investigate the accumulation of assets of the Treasury Secretariat’s (Hacienda) former head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), Santiago Nieto, who in 25 months acquired four properties and a car worth at least 40 million
Read moreGas Truck Explosion Kills at Least 13
A tanker truck transporting liquefied gas exploded in the west Mexican state of Nayarit in the early morning on Monday, Nov. 16, killing at least 13 people, local officials said. According to a report from the Nayarit Attorney General’s Office, the double-tanker truck crashed and exploded along the highway linking the state capital Tepic with Guadalajara, in the western state
Read moreIconique to Donate Sales to Support Medical Personnel
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As Mexican health workers continue to struggle and risk their lives in the face of the growing Covid-19 pandemic because of the severe shortage of proper personal protective equipment, private sector companies of all stripes are pitching in to compensate for government shortfalls. Among the many firms donating part or all of their profits to purchase much-needed
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