By KELIN DILLON Just days after Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) announced the end of the federal government’s Full-Time School program – which provided educational support, additional class hours, and hot food to 3.6 million of the nation’s most impoverished children throughout some 27,000 schools around the nation – in favor of funding infrastructure projects, the controversial move has
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Institute of Health and Wellbeing (Insabi), which is responsible for purchasing medications and medical equipment for all government-run hospitals and public health facilities, abandoned at least 185 ventilators at the customs office in Manzanillo, Colima. The ventilators had been purchased to attend to seriously ill covid-19 patients, but were never delivered to the
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By KELIN DILLON On the heels of the controversial irregularities found and publicly released by Mexico’s Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) in a report surrounding the construction of the country’s megaprojects, a new source of contention has arisen from ASF findings: Federal Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero and close collaborator of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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By KELIN DILLON A new report by Mexico’s Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) detailing the expenditure of the government’s public mega-projects, executed through the compilation of 15 financial and performance audits, has revealed inherent disorder, delays and irregularities found within the construction of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) pet projects, like the Tren Maya, the Dos Bocas
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By KELIN DILLON Three years after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) ordered the cancellation of the New Mexico City International Airport’s (NAICM) construction in Texcoco, the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) has given three different estimated reports of the cancellation’s cost, with no clear resolution on the project’s final price tag, leading to skepticism of the institution’s
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The democratic political life of Mexico, as in many other Latin American nations, is relatively young. In the last decade, a new chapter began in the construction of Mexican politics after the sudden arrival to the presidency of a newly created party. Breaking through and eventually displacing the parties that historically held political hegemony
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A few weeks ago, a media scandal erupted in Mexico after the announcement of an arrest warrant issued by federal authorities for well-known television host Inés Gómez Mont and her husband Victor Manuel Álvarez Puga. The Mexican government issued an international Interpol alert against the couple in order to prevent their possible flight to
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Just three weeks before Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo is due to end his six-year term of office, the western Mexican state is rife with social tensions and rampant violence that threaten to embroil the once-rising political star in a scandal that could bury his future ambitions permanently. Aureoles Conejo, who at the beginning
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The first draft of a public expenditure audit of the second year of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration showed fiscal irregularities amounting to 588 million pesos. The extensive audit of government spending for 2020, which was released on Wednesday, June 30, by the Office of the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF),
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By KELIN DILLON After much back and forth between Mexico’s Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) over the actual cost of the planned New Mexico International Airport’s (NAIM) cancellation, the ASF has confirmed that its initial report, which calculated that the project’s termination cost Mexico almost 332 billion pesos, was, in fact,
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