The changing use of the once-conserved land not only puts the surrounding flora, fauna, rain infiltration and oxygenation at risk, but also endangers the residents of said settlements
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“In an instant, corruption killed all the hopes and dreams we had for our children. It snatched from us the experiences we’ll never share,” said Mireya Rodríguez, whose seven-year-old daughter Paola died in the collapse.
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Twelve Mexico City municipalities — Álvaro Obregón, Azcapotzalco, Benito Juárez, Cuajimalpa, Coyoacán, Cuauhtémoc, Iztapalapa, Iztacalco, Miguel Hidalgo, Magdalena Contreras, Tlapan and Venustiano Carranza — will have a decrease in water supply for the next four weeks, the capital’s water system announced Saturday, Nov. 12. Due to a technical failure on Friday, Nov. 11, in one of the
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The political opposition in Mexico City, and particularly the conservative National Action Party (PAN), hopes to have the 2024 election in the bag. The party’s optimistic calculation is based on the overwhelming success it enjoyed in the 2021 citywide election and is reinforced by the fact that, since then, leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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By MARK LORENZANA In the last year, complaints for the crime of extortion increased in most of the boroughs in Mexico City. In 2020 there were 54 complaints filed at the Cuauhtémoc Mayor’s Office, but by 2021 the complaints grew to 73. According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), from January to
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By MARK LORENZANA On Monday, Aug. 15, 12 municipalities in Mexico City experienced a reduction in the supply of drinking water due to the low water levels in the storage dams of the Cutzamala System aqueduct. Representatives from the Mexico City Water System (Sacmex) explained early Monday that the water pressure in the capital would be decreased from the usual
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By MARK LORENZANA Elements of the Citizen Security Secretariat (SSC) of the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office, in coordination with Mexico’s National Defense Secretariat (Sedena), have seized drug shipments, searched homes and even detained leaders of Los Chapitos (Little Chapos), a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, which has been attempting to expand its operations in Mexico City for almost a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As a scorching spring heat wave persists in Mexico City (CDMX), the capital’s Ultraviolet Radiation Index has hit its highest level yet, making unprotected sun exposure extremely dangerous. Guillermo Ayala, director of early warning for the Secretariat of Comprehensive Risk Management and Civil Protection (SGIRPC), on Tuesday, May 10, warned that radiation levels in
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The ongoing (and scandalous) saga of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) versus the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) in the persecution of 31 prestigious scientists and academics for the alleged misuse of use of federal resources has begun to taint the political aspirations of Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the heir apparent of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite extensive campaigns across Mexico’s capital aimed at gaining and maintaining control over its 32 precincts in the midterm elections on Sunday, June 6, preliminary vote counts indicate that the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) lost territory as a result of the polling. Morena, founded by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as a platform to promote
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