By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just two days after the congressional defeat of his controversial electricity reform bill — which would have prioritized state-run carbon-based energy sources over clean private-sector sources — Mexico’s Senate on Tuesday, April 19, passed Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “Plan B” lithium bill as a political consolation prize for the president. The new bill, which will ensure
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Deputy Carlos Miguel Aysa Damas’ political suicide on Easter Sunday, April 17, may have turned out to be all in vain. After having “sold out” to Andrés Manuel Loóez Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morean) party by voting in favor of the president’s controversial electricity reform bill — which would
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a sign that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) unbridled political power is finally beginning to wane, opposition members of the country’s lower house Chamber of Deputies mustered enough votes on Sunday, April 17, to block the passage of his controversial electricity reform bill, which would have prioritized contaminating carbon-based energy sources from state-run entities
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While the majority of Mexicans commemorated Easter on Sunday, April 17, and members of the local Islamic community are currently observing the holy month of Ramadan, which this year runs from April 2 through May 1, Mexico’s Jews this week celebrate Passover, or Pesach, which began on the night of Friday, April 15, with a
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The fact that members of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party have no qualms about bending — and even breaking — the law in order to achieve their goals is nothing new. We already saw this evidenced in how blatantly the party violated electoral laws in order to promote
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Talk about a cast of thousands! That’s what you can expect when you attend the annual passion play performance in Mexico City’s eastern Iztapalapa municipality this Easter week. The yearly reenactment of Jesus Christ’s last supper, betrayal and procession of the 12 Stations of the Cross, is a neighborhood affair that incorporates the performances of more than
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) changed its mind at the last minute — as it has in the past — leaving former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya still in prison on Tuesday, April 12, after having negotiated his release in exchange for returning $10.7 million to the state-run oil giant. Late Monday, April 11, Mexican Federal
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As part of the ongoing program launched earlier this year by Mexico City’s Miguel Hidalgo Mayor Mauricio Tabe to bolster international cultural exchange, the Italian Embassy in Mexico and the municipal government offered a festival of design and gastronomy inside the Ángela Peralta Theater in Colonia Polanco’s Lincoln Park on Sunday, April 10. The festival, which was
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Only 16 to 17 million Mexicans — about 17 to 18 percent of eligible voters — participated in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted revocation of mandate referendum on Sunday, April 10, according to the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) preliminary figures, representing less than half the required turnout required for the referendum to be binding. And
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a predominantly Catholic nation, Mexico has traditionally celebrated Easter Week, known here as Semana Santa, as one of its most important holiday seasons of the year. Starting on Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, which this year fell on April 10, nearly every community in the country commemorates the resurrection of Christ 2000 years ago with
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