By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 9, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had a phone call with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, joined by Mexican Secretary of the Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard, to ensure a further supply of vaccinations against covid-19 from the United States to Mexico. “We are going to talk on Monday to give continuity to
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By KELIN DILLON While Mexico’s hospitalizations caused by covid-19 have grown by a massive 562 percent in the past two months alone, the country’s hospitals have been suffering from a huge lack in supply of gel, soap and other necessary items used in the sanitation. According to patients and health workers, there is also a distinct lack of services, medicinal
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By KELIN DILLON While protestors against the country’s government have filled the streets of Cuba, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) went out of his way to publicly declare his support for the Miguel Díaz-Canel administration during a press conference on the morning of Monday, July 12. Hundreds of people began protesting in Cuba on Sunday, July 11, challenging the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The number of active covid-19 cases in Mexico during the week of June 13 through June 19 surged by 19 percent compared to the previous week, the Public Health Secretariat reported on Friday, July 2. Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx) had the highest number of active cases, with more than 3,000
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), nearly three years into his six-year term, spoke to the nation in a televised address on Thursday, July 1, marking the third anniversary of his 2018 electoral victory. During the 40-minute address, AMLO showcased what he said were his administration’s most important successes and made predictions for
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s vaccination process against covid-19 along the U.S. border will begin on Wednesday, June 16, for inhabitants in northern industrial cities, said the country’s Undersecretary of Health Hugo López-Gatell. The program will begin in 39 municipalities with the 1.35 million doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine donated to Mexico by the United States, available for
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As of Tuesday, June 1, the Mexico City government has begun vaccinating people between the ages of 40- and 49-years-old against the covid-19 coronavirus. All eligible residents of the capital who live in the Álvaro Obregón, Benito Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, Cuajimalpa, Coyoacán, Milpa Alta and Magdalena Contreras precincts will be offered the AstraZeneca two-dose vaccine
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XINHUA The Mexican economy is recovering at different “two speeds” from the collapse caused by the covid-19 pandemic, with exports growing at a steady pace and consumption gradually increasing with fits and starts, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said on Monday, May 31. During a virtual press conference, OECD economist for Costa Rica and Mexico Alberto González
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By KELIN DILLON Batches of AstraZeneca’s vaccinations against covid-19 that were packaged in Mexico, made with active substances manufactured in Argentina, will be released this month, said Alejandro Svarch, head of the Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris). “I have the high honor and pleasure to inform you that the first four batches of AstraZeneca vaccine meet Cofepris
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