By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The dryness, the itching, the chafing — vaginal atrophy, the thinning, drying and inflammation of the vaginal walls, is one of the most common yet underdiagnosed symptoms of menopause. But while it affects at least six out of every 10 Mexican women over the age of 50, the condition is not limited to those going through or
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Complicity
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Longtime Mexican human rights worker and legal defender against the mounting incidence of femicide Cecilia Monzón was shot dead in Puebla on Saturday, May 21. The attack occurred around 10 a.m., in front of Puebla’s La Riviera subdivision According to eyewitness and police reports, Monzón was ambushed in her car by two men on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may have screamed foul when the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearance (CED) on Tuesday, April 12, declared that disappearances in Mexico are on the rise, thanks to organized crime groups, government complicity and “almost absolute impunity” for culprits, even going so far as to call the committee
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After more than 19 months of occupation by the predominantly female Okupa movement protest group, the headquarters of Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) in downtown Mexico City was reclaimed by capital police on the night of Friday, April 15. Mexico City’s Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) police implemented an operation to surround the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICVO STAFF The growing momentum of Latinas in the United States shows that these women will play a decisive role in the U.S. economic recovery, said Angélica Fuentes Téllez, one of Mexico’s wealthiest and most powerful women, in a recent interview with the Publifix news service. Fuentes Téllez, who, along with her ex-husband Jorge Vergara, is
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In what was seen by many women in Mexico as a blatant affront to their cause to end the country’s surging levels of femicide and gender-based violence, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) marked Tuesday, March 8, International Women’s Day (M8), locked in the National Palace, congratulating himself for his political accomplishments (like, for example, more
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By KELIN DILLON More than 75,000 women took to the streets of Mexico City in protest of violence against women on Tuesday, March 8 – International Women’s Day – in what’s become a requisite march for the country’s feminists on the global holiday, commonly known in the nation as ‘8M’. While government officials like Mexican President Andrés Manuel López
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Thousands of Mexican women are expected to take to the streets on Tuesday, March 8, to mark International Women’s Day (IWD), and while President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has called on the marchers to avoid violence, few expect the protests to be 100 percent pacifistic. Mexico, with one of the highest per capita incidences of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Last year was the most violence in Mexican history for women, with 1,040 victims of femicide in the country, the highest figure since this high-impact crime began to be reported in official statistics in 2015. This means that, on average, two women were killed each day because of their gender; most of them in
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