By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexicans can expect to see the first covid-19 vaccines in the country administered by mid-December, Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday, Nov. 24. “The start of a nationwide vaccination campaign is imminent,” Ebrard said during the daily press briefing of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). “We are on track, and, in
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By KYLIE MADRY Do the Cabinet Shuffle While the resignation of Mexico’s Security and Public Protection Secretary Alfonso Durazo made headlines several weeks ago, more cabinet changes are coming, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). To replace Durazo, AMLO proposed Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who had been appointed to oversee Mexico’s sea ports and merchant shipping in July, during his
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By KYLIE MADRY Foreign Meds to Flood In Mexico’s medicine shortage will come to an end, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced at his morning press conference Thursday, Oct. 29. The country signed a deal with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) for 32 billion pesos to buy medicine from outside of Mexico, which, until a few
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By KYLIE MADRY From Federales to Mall Cops More than 8,000 members of the Federal Forces Division and the Gendarmerie Division of the now-dissolved Mexican Federal Police will be reduced to doormen and parking lot attendants, according to an Oct. 17 report in La Crónica newspaper. The divisions built a reputation as specialized military-police forces within the Federal Police, with high-power
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XINHUA Mexico has paid an advance of $159.8 million to guarantee the purchase of a successful vaccine against the novel coronavirus (covid-19) through the Covax initiative, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced on Saturday, Oct. 10. According to SRE, Mexico transferred the funds and presented risk guarantee documents for another $20.6 million to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which coordinates the
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XINHUA Mexico will formalize its participation in the Covax Facility, a global initiative to ensure equitable access to any vaccines against the novel coronavirus (covid-19), Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced on Tuesday, Sept. 23. “It would be Mexico’s first, so to speak, binding contract for access to vaccines against covid-19,” Ebrard said at a press conference, accompanied by President
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid-19 Vaccine Funds Assured The Mexican government wields, for starters, 20 billion pesos “we have saved because there is no more corruption nor luxuries” to vaccinate every Mexican, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) while on tour in Puebla over the weekend. At the same time, he called upon every Mexican to not be overconfident before
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Haphazard School Kickoff The school year in Mexico kicked off on Monday, Aug. 24, with all of the failures expected from a nation not accustomed to remote education. With classes at home, parents from all over the country complained first about the communications system failure as teachers responsible for their groups groped to find alternative education methods.
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XINHUA Mexico will participate in clinical trials of a vaccine being developed in Italy against the novel coronavirus (covid-19), Mexican Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday, Aug. 25. “We are very grateful to Italy,” Ebrard said at a press conference, accompanied by Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and authorities from the health sector. Italy’s Lazzaro Spallanzani
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XINHUA Mexico has been offered at least 2,000 doses of a Russian covid-19 vaccine and is to take part in its clinical trials, said Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard on Thursday, Aug. 20. “This is very good news because once again we are gaining time,” said Ebrard. Ebrard and Russian Ambassador to Mexico Viktor Koronelli met on Wednesday, Aug. 19,
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