By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The results of Mexico’s 2024 presidential election will be determined by the country’s middle class, a former Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) said this week. Writing in the April 11 edition of the newsletter of the U.S.-based trimonthly magazine Americas Quarterly, former SRE Undersecretary and current professor of public policy at the London School of
Read more
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Sunday, Aug. 1, millions of Mexicans — mostly devoted followers of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — turned out to cast their vote in a convoluted referendum to decide whether to prosecute the nation’s former presidents for their alleged misdeeds. And even though AMLO touted the “consulta” as a “momentous experience” in Mexico’s democracy, in
Read more
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Four days before what it describes as Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “farcical referendum,” the New York-based Americas Quarterly on Thursday, July 28, published a scathing review on the absurdity of the Sunday, Aug. 1, public polling to decide whether to prosecute the country’s former presidents for their alleged misdeeds. In the article, which is
Read more
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF There seems to be no bounds when it comes to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) tenacious obsession with keeping his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party in power. As El Universal columnist and FOROtv news anchor Ana Paula Ordorica pointed out in a May 19 article for Americas Quarterly magazine, even when
Read more
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues with his quest to rewrite the Mexican Constitution, undo the energy reform implemented by his predecessor, grasp control of all three powers of government and stack the Congress with even more of his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) cohorts, the National Electoral Institute (INE) is
Read more
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When more than 4.7 million homes in the north of Mexico were left without light or heating on Monday, Feb. 15, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was quick to resort to his favorite stock scapegoat for the subsequent humanitarian and economic repercussions: Blame it on past administrations. True to form, rather than assuming responsibility for the
Read more