By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The cost of Mexico’s Dos Bocas refinery — one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s pet megaprojects — is expected to cost 40 percent more than previously estimated — some $3.6 billion more — and is unlikely to be completed before the government’s 2022 deadline, inside sources reported. Construction of the 340,000-barrel-per-day refinery is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s financially strapped state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is slated to take control of the Deer Park refinery, located in Texas, on Thursday, Jan. 20, in accordance with a purchase agreement with the Anglo-Dutch transnational corporation Royal Dutch Shell, which currently owns half of the oil processing plant. In May of last year,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In an apparent reversal of its previous stance, the administration of leftist Mexican President Andrés Manual López Obrador (AMLO) has seemingly struck a deal with the Joe Biden administration to reinstate the remain-in-Mexico policy as of next week. The U.S. Border Control announced Thursday, Dec. 2, that the Mexican government had agreed to the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Grand Prix Formula-1, set to take place in Mexico City from Friday, Nov. 5, through Sunday, Nov. 7, at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez, could offer Mexican driver Sergio “Checo” Pérez a hometown advantage. The 71-lap race along a 4.304-kilometer circuit is expected to draw in a record audience of more than 100,000, especially
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. Consulate General in Matamoros issued a security alert for all Americans on Saturday, Oct. 23, recommending they avoid travel to and within that Tamaulipas city because of the bloody shootout between police and suspected drug cartel operatives that occurred there on Friday, Oct. 22. The Consulate also extended the travel alert to
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican racecar driver Sergio “Checo” Pérez finished third place in the Turkish Grand Prix Formula 1 competition on Sunday, Oct. 10. At the Turkish Grand Prix, Checo Pérez scored more points than in any other Formula 1 season. In 2020, Pérez finished fourth in the Drivers’ World Championship, opening the door for him to
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XINHUA The surge of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border underscores the need for a continentwide legal framework to protect migrant rights, Mexican immigration experts said Monday. Sept. 27. At a seminar on the current Haitian migrant crisis, Alberto Hernandez, president of Mexico’s College of the Northern Border (Colef), which hosted the event, said designing and applying such a continentwide
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Amid the arrival of an estimated 6,000 undocumented Haitian immigrants to the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León, mostly returned from the U.S. border after not having been granted asylum in that country, Casa Indi, the main shelter for these migrants in the state, warned Monday, Sept. 27, that the humanitarian situation is worsening
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Border Patrols officers temporarily detained 14 Mexican soldiers on Saturday, Sept. 25, for crossing into the United States over a border bridge in El Paso, Texas, without proper documentation. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement that two Mexican military vehicles crossed the bridge that connects El Paso with
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