By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday, April 13, that his administration will begin vaccinating children against covid-19 starting in May, as long as Mexico receives the needed vaccines from the Covax (United Nations Covid-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility) mechanism. “We have paid in advance for a batch of vaccines from the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico must act immediately to curb an alarming trend of increased enforced disappearances, egged on by “almost absolute impunity” and often involving public officials, a United Nations committee said Tuesday, April 12. A rise in organized crime and a plethora of corrupt state officials are helping to spur Mexico’s skyrocketing number of enforced disappearances
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) never tires of declaring his constituents “feliz, feliz, feliz” (“happy, happy, happy”) under his leftist administration, it turns out that the Mexican people are in fact far less happy now than they were before he took office. According to the World Happiness Report, released Friday, March 18, just
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After stating that Mexico is against any use of military force to resolve geopolitical disputes, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, Feb. 24, said that he “has a plan” to avoid fuel price hikes in Mexico stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “In terms of foreign policy, Mexico is going to continue promoting dialogue,
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XINHUA The economy of Latin America and the Caribbean will grow by only 2.1 percent in 2022, representing a slowdown compared to 6.2 percent in 2021, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reported last week. According to the commission’s projections released on Wednesday, Jan. 12, the economy of the Caribbean region will grow 6.1
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Former U.S. envoys and military commanders plead for Afghanistan
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After concluding a 13-day investigation into Mexico’s appalling record of disappeared persons — which number more than 95,000 according to government figures — the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) said Friday, Nov. 26, that there is “almost absolute impunity” for those responsible. “As of Friday, more than 95,000 people have been officially
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With more than 24,500 people reported missing during the first three years of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, and a total of more than 94,000 missing persons with no explanation as to their whereabouts, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) sent a select team of researchers on an official
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One Jackass Reprimanding Another
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