In a statement, the government said that “the supply and production of white corn in our country are important factors in determining its price and, therefore, also that of the various consumer products made from it, mainly tortillas”
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The Rising Cost of Tortillas
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By MARK LORENZANA Despite the tortilla being one of the 24 products of Mexico’s basic basket included in the Package Against Inflation and Famine (PACIC), its price has increased from May to September of this year. On April 4, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced to the public a new price-control initiative — the PACIC – that established cost protection
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By MARK LORENZANA Several days ago, British former world champion boxer and Olympic silver medalist Amir Khan announced his retirement. Khan is an exciting fighter who has dynamite in his fists but, unfortunately, a glass jaw — while he regularly lit up his opponents, knocking out 21 of them, five of his own six losses came by brutal stoppage. I
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As inflation in Mexico continues to surge month-after-month, hitting 7.45 percent in March, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Tuesday, April 26, the framework of his plan to reduce price increases by forming a pact with private-sector producers and distributors. In his proposed plan to control the cost of eggs, milk, oil,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s inflation rate soared to 6.1 percent in April, its highest level since the year 2000, according to figures released on Friday, May 7, by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). The federal government’s inflation rate is based on the prices of the country’s basic food basket, food and household products that
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The Rising Cost of Tortillas
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid Vaccine Trials Mexico will soon launch phase 3 trials of the Canadian-Chinese covid-19 vaccine called CanSino Biologics developed by Janssen Labs, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The vaccine trials will be held in Mexico City, the Pacific Coast states of Michoacán, Guerrero and Oaxaca, and the northern border states Coahuila and Nuevo León, accross from
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By RICARDO CASTILLO In mid-July, former Mexican Treasury Secretary Carlos Urzúa, upon presenting his resignation to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), launched a frontal attack against AMLO’s Chief of Staff Alfonso Romo Garza in an interview. “It’s most difficult to understand the type of relationship, ideologically speaking, Romo has with the president,” Urzúa said. “He’s an extreme right-winger.” Urzúa
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