By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, March 1, the cooling towers of Mexico’s state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) thermoelectric plant in Mérida, Yucatán, collapsed in an incident facility workers say was triggered by a lack of maintenance. Ironically, the plant’s structural failure comes amid Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) repeated talk-ups of CFE infrastructure as the executive looks to
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AMLO’s Tren Maya Tourist Train
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — More than three decades since its foundation by politician Jorge González Torres, the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) has managed to ride the partisan crest of Mexican politics, fluctuating like a chess piece between the different political currents in the country. But despite being one of the longest-standing parties in Mexico’s modern democratic
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After nearly two years of lockdowns and covid-19 social-distancing restrictions, Mexico is ready to reopen its doors to national and international travel wholesalers in its 45th annual Tourism Tiangüis next month in the southeastern state of Yucatán, federal Tourism (Sectur) Secretary Miguel Torruco Marqués announced last week. And this year, Latin America’s most important travel wholesale market
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In the southwest corner of Mexico’s northern state of Sonora, the remnants of one of the country’s oldest ethnic groups can still be found: the Yaqui people, who despite a tumultuous relationship with the government throughout modern Mexican history, have remained standing and constantly fighting for their land and basic human rights. The indigenous group,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF One of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) pet megaprojects — the construction of multi-billion-peso Tren Maya tourist train across the Yucatan Peninsula — keeps getting costlier and costlier, while projections for its completion keep getting delayed. According to the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur), the Tren Maya will cost
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A long-term drought has struck more than two-thirds of Mexico’s farmlands, and environmentalists are warning that the situation is only going to get worse in the weeks ahead due to soaring temperatures, severe crop damage and impending water supply shortages. But as experts desperately try to sound the alarm that climate change is already taking a toll
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It pretty much was to be expected: First, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) endowed the nation’s military with the gift of nonaccountability, meaning that it doesn’t have to report to anyone what it is doing or how much it is spending doing it. Then, he placed the construction and administration of his highly controversial Tren
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XINHUA Mexico is registering a rebound in covid-19 infections in six of its 32 states after 20 weeks of a national downward trend, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo López-Gatell said on Tuesday, June 15. Yucatán and Quintana Roo have a “very substantial” increase in covid cases, followed by Baja California, Campeche, Sinaloa and Veracruz, according to the official.
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By KELIN DILLON With Mexico’s rainy season undoubtedly having arrived, massive rain storms are expected to continue throughout the country, even causing Mexico City to issue an alert to its inhabitants about the storms. Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) released a statement revealing low pressure in both the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico that has a 20 percent chance of
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