Mexico to Double Number of Cuban Doctors
Many Mexican physicians are opposed to the contracting of the Cuban doctors, who are not licensed to practice in Mexico and who receive nearly double their salary for comparable positions
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Sánchez Cordero to Leave Segob to Run Senate
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Interior (Gobernación, or Segob) Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero announced Thursday, Aug. 26, that she will be resigning from that post to retake her seat in the Senate and to assume the next presidency of the country’s upper legislative house. Sánchez Cordero was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018 and was
Read moreDisgruntled IMSS Retirees Demand Lifetime Savings Returned
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When a then-30-year-old Rosario Hernández Jiménez first took a job as a biochemist for the Oaxaca branch of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) back in the early 1990s, she was impressed by the worker benefits her new position included. Not only did the IMSS provide her with full medical insurance (it is, after all, the nation’s
Read moreMexican Government to Provide Funeral Expenses for Covid Deaths
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Tuesday, Nov. 24, that the government will soon begin issuing cash payouts to the families of people who died of covid-19 to help with funeral expenses. During his daily morning press conference; AMLO said that families that present a valid death certificate verifying that the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Police Brutality Accusations After a raucous weekend of protests and arbitrary arrests, the Jalisco State Human Rights Commission (CEDHJ) is demanding that all police commanders who participated in the detentions be removed from their posts. At the top of the list is the state attorney general, Gerardo Octavio Solís, who allegedly ordered the arrests of the protesters,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Wind and Solar Energy Thwarted The publication in the Mexican government’s Official Gazette on Friday, May 15, of a change in federal electricity policies, titled the Policy of Trustworthiness, Security, Continuity and Quality in the National Electricity System has irked many a foreign corporation that has invested in renewable electricity. Mexican Energy (Sener) Secretary Rocío Nahle has
Read moreMexican Outsourcing Bill Still in the Making
By RICARDO CASTILLO The Mexican Senate draft of the new labor subcontracting or outsourcing bill project bill has undergone some major changes so far. It’s also been the subject of deep divisions among senators, some wanting to go the radical route and others obeying lobbying efforts from both foreign and national companies that have so far gotten their way in
Read moreAMLO’s Revolving Door Turns Twice
By RICARDO CASTILLO The 10-page-long resignation letter Senator Germán Martínez Cázares sent to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, May 21, resigning from the directorate post of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) marked a turn of political chess castling even before the president has been in office for six months. Immediately after Martínez Cázares’
Read moreMexican Social Security Institute Director’s Resignations Stirs up Political Hornet’s Nest
By RICARDO CASTILLO In what constituted the first internal rupture of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration, Senator Germán Martínez Cázares, director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), turned in his resignation on Tuesday, May 21, after denouncing “pernicious interference” from Treasury Secretariat (Hacienda) officials, apparently acting on orders from Treasury Secretary Carlos Urzúa. Martínez Cázares read
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