AMLO’s Second Nationalization Is a Costly Hoax
with the transfers of more financial resources to the CFE to cover its new deficit, the people of Mexico will bear the cost in higher electricity bills
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A Nation’s Academic Legacy on the Line
The proposed reform would allow all members of the UNAM community to elect by direct, universal vote the school’s rector
Read moreLegal Reality versus Public Perception
A private individual can decide to ignore a bad public reputation, but a public servant will always remain in the public eye
Read moreWho Is Really to Blame for the Metro Crash?
Politicians are typically remembered for the decisions they make or the situations they face, successfully or otherwise, in the final stretches of their terms
Read moreA City without Laws
OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The crisis with Mexico City’s Superior Court of Justice is a surging problem which, in addition to leading to a serious traffic jam, could lead to a reduction in private investment, economic decline, higher unemployment in a city with already too few jobs and ungovernability in the country’s capital. It could also derail Mexico City
Read moreA Very Justified Fear
OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER They say that fear and anger are the two most effective motivators in mobilizing a society electorally. What the people of Mexico witnessed in terms of the government’s reaction to the massive Sunday, Nov. 13, citizens’ March for Democracy was a clear demonstration of what ended up happening with the way of reacting from the
Read morePAN Victory in Mexico City Is Not a Given
OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The political opposition in Mexico City, and particularly the conservative National Action Party (PAN), hopes to have the 2024 election in the bag. The party’s optimistic calculation is based on the overwhelming success it enjoyed in the 2021 citywide election and is reinforced by the fact that, since then, leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Read moreMexico’s Supreme Court under Seige
OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The course taken by Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) last week on the issue of preventive detention (pre-trial detention without bail) is one more example of how the country’s highest court has been tainted by politics and how its justices have abdicated their responsibility to politicians. The debate over the use of preventive detention,
Read moreThe Fray for the Nation’s Capital
OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Far more contested than the candidacy for the Mexican presidency is the upcoming battle to see who will become the next governor of Mexico City. Both elections will be determined in 2024, and while the results of the presidential poll are pretty much a given — current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National
Read moreNew SEP Study Plans Prioritizes Indoctrination, Not Academia
OPINION By MARK LORENZANA There have been mostly negative reactions to the appointment by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of Leticia Ramírez as head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), to replace Delfina Gómez Álvarez. Ramírez has not been in her position for more than a couple of days, and already the SEP had presented a “New
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