By RICARDO CASTILLO Extended Isolation The full containment of the Covid-19 pandemic in Mexico will require much time than originally planned, so the stay-home period may have to be extended from the original April 30 to May 30, said Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell, who is in charge of monitoring the spread of the disease. The announcement was made during
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By RICH GRANT Walt Disney loved trains, and because of that, the world is a better – and happier — place. Walt was fond of saying that his empire “started with a mouse.” And yes, his creation of Mickey Mouse did make him a fortune. But the idea for Mickey Mouse came to him while riding a train. It’s
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XINHUA While the federal government in Mexico, where there were 15 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus as of Friday, March 13, is raking a conservative stance in trying to reduce communication of the disease at large gatherings, most Latin American countries are taking a more aggressive proactive approach in trying to curb contractions of Covid-19. The Mexican government did — at
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Coverage Stops Peso, Oil Skids The Mexican government took several emergency measures to contain the downslide of the peso against the U.S. dollar over the weekend. The peso that got wobbled with a jaw punch but did not hit the canvas. It just showed shaky knees. Both the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) and the Treasury Secretariat
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By RICARDO CASTILLO First Coronavirus Case in Mexico Mexico’s Health Secretariat was notified on Saturday, Feb. 1, by the Los Angeles International Airport medical authorities of the confirmed case of a 37-year-old Chinese national and Wuhan native who had visited Mexico as of Jan. 21. Taxi service company Uber acknowledged that the infected person used at least two of its
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS An estimated 800,000 visitors — about 20 percent of whom will be international tourists — are expected to attend the 2020 carnival festival in the Yucatan capital of Mérida, said the city’s director of economic development and tourism, Eduardo Seijo Solis, during a press conference on Monday, Jan. 20. Headlining the festival will be the internationally acclaimed
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By RICARDO CASTILLO This is yet another article about the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, but to make sense of the matter, let me start somewhere else. Once the U.S. star spangled banner was flying over the National Palace in Mexico City — back on Sept 13, 1847, to be exact – then-U.S. President James Polk was asked, with the new conquest
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s Economy Shielded In one of the multiple events of the four-day-long 31st Reunion of Ambassadors and Consuls 2020 organized by the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) from Jan. 7 to Jan. 10, Treasury Secretary Arturo Herrera took the forum as an opportunity to claim that Mexico – one year after Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO García Luna Refuses Mexico’s Help Shackled and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, Mexico’s former top cop Genaro García Luna appeared before Judge David Horan of the Dallas Federal Court on Tuesday, Dec. 17. García Luna, who was the public security secretary under former Mexican President Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), declined during his brief 10-minute court appearance his right
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) first proposed the ambitious construction of a tourist train that would cross through the southern states of Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Chiapas, Campeche and Tabasco, he said that 90 percent of the financing for the ambition project would come from private sector sources. The remainder of the
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