UNAM’s Technical Council has ordered its Ethics Commission to open disciplinary proceedings against Rodríguez Ortiz for her purported role in the Esquivel plagiarism scandal
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A collision between two trains on Line 3 of the Metro Collective Transportation System in Mexico City on the morning of Jan. 7 left one person dead and at least 100 injured
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Monday’s election required three voting rounds before Piña earned the six out of 11 votes she needed to take the SCJN presidency
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By MARK LORENZANA Expect economic turbulence this year on a global scale, with “obvious effects for Mexico,” according to José Domingo Figueroa, the new president of the Mexican Institute of Finance Executives (IMEF), in an interview with Mexican daily newspaper Reforma on Monday, Jan. 2. Two of the biggest factors that will directly affect Mexico’s economy, according to Figueroa, are
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum made two announcements regarding her future on Wednesday, Nov. 23. In the morning, she confirmed her engagement to National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) physics scientist Jesús María Tarriba Unger. Sheinbaum did not provide a date for the nuptials, but did provide some insight into how her relationship with Tarriba Ungar had
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Jorge Nuño Lara will become the new head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), replacing Jorge Arganis, who is leaving office due to health issues, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Wednesday, Oct. 9. “Jorge Nuño is going to take charge of the Secretariat of Communications and Infrastructure: he is going to be
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report conducted by daily Mexican newspaper El Universal, Mexico has spent more than 85 percent of its savings since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) entered office in 2018. These funds, housed in the Budget Income Stabilization Funds (FEIP) and the Income Stabilization Fund of the Federal Entities (FEIEF), had built up
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By MARK LORENZANA The death of a second person as a result of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico on the afternoon of Monday, Sept. 19, was confirmed by authorities from the State Civil Protection Agency of the western Mexican state of Colima. Authorities reported that a person was found dead in the remains of a gym in the city
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By MARK LORENZANA Physicians in Mexico have rebuked Mexican Undersecretary of Public Health Hugo López-Gatell for his criticisms that medical offices attached to pharmacies are “a hoax” and “a great deception” and that “they should not exist” because “they don’t really treat diseases.” López-Gatell, in his Health Pulse report at Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) daily press conference
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XINHUA Mexico’s renowned monarch butterflies, which each year make the arduous trek back and forth from Canada, are under grave threat from breeding habitat destruction and climate change, Mexican biologist Gabriela Jiménez of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) said in a recent interview. Calling for more government and NGO actions to protect the endangered species Jiménez told Xinhua
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