PULSE NEWS MEXICO A 48-year-old tourist from Dallas, Texas, who was visiting the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, was confirmed on Tuesday, June 7, to have contracted monkeypox. The man, who presented at a Puerto Vallarta hospital with pustule-like lesions on May 30, allegedly fled the hospital early Friday, June 3, after doctors informed him that he could
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By MARK LORENZANA As a precautionary measure, Mexican Control Judge Humberto Chávez on Sunday, June 5, ordered a one-year preventive detention (jail without bail) against César Horacio Duarte Jáquez, the former governor of Chihuahua and member of the centralist and once-all-powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), for alleged crimes of embezzlement and criminal association. Judge Chávez set the indictment for Wednesday,
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is back in the news now that U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar announced last week a potential $500 billion investment in the new transoceanic project to link up Salina Cruz in the Pacific with the Coatzacoalcos port in the Gulf of Mexico. Hazy as Salazar’s financial plan may be for now,
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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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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just days before the controversial Title 42 restriction imposed by former U.S. President Donald Trump in March 2020 allowing Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents to turn away migrants with the goal of preventing the spread of covid-19 was due to expire on Monday, May 23, a federal judge in Lafayette, Louisiana, late Friday,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After it was revealed by the daily newspaper Reforma that Carmelina Esquer Camacho, director of Pemex Procurement International (PPI), a Texas-based subsidiary of Mexico’s state-owned oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), had acquired a residence in Houston valued at more than $400,000 (equivalent to about 8 million pesos) in late 2020, repeated requests to make
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XINHUA HIDALGO, Texas — It’s a scene straight out of a “Mission: Impossible” episode: A helicopter hovers at low altitude above a roadside jungle while several officers search on foot along the bush edges with a dozen vehicles from multiple law enforcement agencies stopping by. But for people living in Hidalgo, a county near the U.S.-Mexico border with Texas, the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Korean War veteran and longtime Mexico City resident Raymond (Ray) Freeman Buggs was the recipient of the American Benevolent Society’s (ABS) 2022 Herbert L. Wallace Lifetime Community Service Award, presented during the society’s 154th Cherry Pie Festival at the U. S. Embassy residence in Mexico City’s Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec on Wednesday, May
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In recent weeks in Mexico, the national news headlines have pointed to the same issue: the growing numbers of missing and murdered women throughout the country. This social phenomenon is on the rise, with 969 gender-based murders of women last year alone. The first cases of mass femicide in Mexico that captured the
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The cultural diversity of Mexico today is the result of the syncretism of the native indigenous peoples and the Western culture, brought from Spain by the colonizers to the territory in 1521 that produced what we now know as the Mexican culture. Every aspect of the country’s indigenous cultures — includings language, religion, art
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