By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Energy Control Center (Cenace) has been planning strategically timed blackouts across the country to help reduce energy consumption following a low supply of natural gas, which have now been affecting parts of Mexico that were never planned to lose power. Northern Mexico mainly uses gas to generate its energy, and the Texas pipeline that brings
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may continue to pooh-pooh the growing number of femicides in the country — and even the very existence of the femicide phenomenon — in 2020, at least one woman was murdered in Mexico every two and a half hours, according to a report released by the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Russian Vaccínea The Mexican Public Health Secretariat on Monday, Jan. 25, published in the Official Gazette the ordinance outlining the purchase of covid-19 vaccines by private citizens, companies and state governments. No doubt, the announcement was rushed to the government’s newspaper spurred on by the announcement that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was buying 24 million
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XINHUA Mexican authorities are investigating the murder of 12 men whose bodies were found on the night of Sunday, Jan. 17, on a rural road in the municipality of Las Choapas, in the eastern state of Veracruz, police said. Veracruz’s secretary of public security said Monday, Jan. 17, on Twitter that the police have established checkpoints and patrols, and are
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By KELIN DILLON For the first time in the history of Mexico, almost half of the federal government’s secretariats will now be headed by women. The new cabinet of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will consist of nine women and 10 men, the closest gender differential ever seen in a Mexican president’s cabinet. The appointments break traditional gendered
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By KELIN DILLON A documented 515 Mexican police officers were killed in the line of duty in 2020. The figures come from Cause in Common, a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping the Mexican government responsible and honest with its citizens. According to the report, an average of 43 officers were killed in the line of duty monthly in Mexico during
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By KYLIE MADRY Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has long been disliked by members of the opposition parties, who formed the country’s ruling class until AMLO and his National Regeneration Movement (Morena) took power. That distaste is turning into open revolt, as the president faces threats from the rightwing National Anti-AMLO Front (Frena), the newly formed Sí por
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By KYLIE MADRY Ventilators Not Saving Mexico’s Covid-19 Patients More than 80 percent of intubated covid-19 patients have died in Mexico, according to a report released by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) late Wednesday, Oct. 21. Since covid-19 hospitalizations began in March, 17,331 IMSS patients have been intubated, the institute reported. Of those, 15,070, or 86.9 percent, have died.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Each September, the people of Mexico pay homage to a group of six military school boys known as the nation’s Niños Héroes (Children Heroes). Although there is to this day much debate as to the accuracy of their tragic tale, their fateful sacrifice at Chapultepec Castle is regarded as an example of national pride
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Cleavage at Conago Ten Mexican governors met Monday, Sept. 7, in the northern city of Chihuahua. The purpose of their gathering was to vote on whether to continue to participate in the National Governors Commission (Conago), an organization that aims to be one voice before the president. The outcome of the meeting was that all10 voted to
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