By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar reprimanded Mexico’s lower house Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, March 24, for launching a Mexico-Russia Friendship Group one day earlier with Moscow’s envoy Víktor Koronelli in tow. Speaking before the same parliamentarians, Salazar said that in the midst of Russia’s brutal invasion into Ukraine, “this sort of endorsement”
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was announcing that the Joe Biden administration had determined Russia had indeed committed war crimes in Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to Mexico Víktor Koronelli went before Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, March 23, to “congratulate” the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for not
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, March 22, questioned the U.S. Congress’s decision to allocate emergency funds for Ukraine wartime relief due to Russia’s invasion of that country while continuing to stall on providing financial aid to Central America. “The aid for Ukraine was approved in just two days, while support
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) Secretary Víctor Villalobos said Friday, March 18, that if the country’s production of yellow corn increases by at least 8 million tons, Mexico will be able to declare itself self-sufficient and stop importing by the end of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term in 2024. “We
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICOI STAFF On Tuesday, March 15, Mexican reporter Armando Linares, director of the Monitor Michoacán news outlet, became the eighth journalist to be murdered so far this year in Mexico in a torrent of killings that has earned the government international condemnation. Linares was shot dead in the city of Zitacuaro, Michoacan, outside his home, that
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XINHUA The growing geopolitical conflict resulting from Russia’s invasion into Ukraine has exacerbated uncertainty surrounding Mexico’s economy, the Mexican Institute of Finance Executives (IMEF) said on Tuesday, March 15. In its monthly analysis, the private-sector IMEF said that the global economic landscape changed notably due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the impact of which is still to early to gauge. IMEF
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War on the Horizon
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While the administration of Mexico’s leftist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), refuses to take any diplomatic or commercial stance against Russia for its invasion into the sovereign nation of Ukraine, Mexico’s leading bread company, Grupo Bimbo, announced Monday, March 14, that it will suspend all sales and future investments in Russia. Bimbo is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Although Mexico exports crude oil, it is a net importer of carbon-based fuel, meaning that it imports more oil products than it imports. Consequently, the surging price of international oil, and by extension, all oil-based products, such as gasoline, will negatively impact Mexico’s finances, Janneth Quiroz Zamora, deputy director of economic analysis at the
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