By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican political parties are scrambling to find women who can be candidates in the June 6, 2021 midterm elections. The rush during this year-end week is due to the fact that Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal has set Wednesday, Dec. 30, as the final deadline to register candidates. Though the search has been on for months, it should not
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) released on Monday, Dec. 21, the text of a “note of estrangement” in regards to the arrest and temporary detention of former Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos. Here is a translation of part of that note: “The Secretariat of Foreign Relations (SRE) — through the directorate of relations for North America — affectuously
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The last brawl in this legislative year in the Mexican Congress was over the so-called “Monreal Bill” that was stuck in the middle of a verbal debate and its vote postponed until February. The bill is also known as the “Bank of Mexico,” or “Banxico Bill,” and it has already passed with leeway at the Senate, and
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Banxico Law Postponement The Mexican Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, Dec. 15, announced it was postponing the debate on the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) Bill approved last week by the Senate until February. Deputies Chamber President Laura Rojas made the announcement on social media after the majority National Regeneration Movement (Morena) insisted on discussing and voting on
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By RICARDO CASTILLO No Lupe-Reyes Reveling The good news is that on Friday, Dec. 11, Mexico approved the Pfizer-BioNTech labs covid vaccine and will soon begin administering it to health workers and the nation’s most vulnerable. But while this may mean light at the end of the tunnel, for Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe (Lupe) worshipers, it did not come soon
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Thursday, Dec. 19, that he will propose a 15-percent increase in the nation’s minimum wage for 2021. “For the last two years, we have been working to raise the minimum wage in Mexico,” AMLO said in his daily morning press conference. “In our first year
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By RICARDO CASTILLO New Dollar Revenues Law The Mexican Senate approved a bill on Wednesday, Dec. 9, stipulating that all foreign currencies income flowing into Mexico should stay in the nation and not be allowed to be repatriated to the country of its origin. The board of directors of Mexico’s central bank, Banco de Mexico (Banxico), immediately challenged the bill,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Negotiations on the controversial personnel outsourcing legislation bill proposed to the Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Nov. 12 have been postponed until February 2021, the president announced on Wednesday, Dec. 9. During an early meeting at the National Palace with business leaders and labor representatives, AMLO said that the details
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO Reshuffles his Queens The reshuffling of women in the Mexican presidential cabinet that was announced on Monday, Dec. 7, may not be to the liking of many, but the dice have already rolled and the shots stand. The problem with the five reappointed women in the cabinet of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is not
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ominous Holiday Warning After expert epidemiologists forecast an ominous surge of covid-19 infections for January, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) issued a public call on Friday, Dec. 4, for people to avoid attending traditional holiday “posadas” gatherings, which usually begin in mid-December and run through Christmas Eve, and to stay home as much as possible
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