Inside Segalmex’s 15 Billion-Peso Embezzlement Scandal
While founded with the positive intention of supplying low-income Mexican families with affordable food resources, Segalmex soon became embroiled in scandal
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Luck of the Draw Supposedly Reigns Supreme at the New INE
It’s the influence that the INE’s new ranks may have on the institute’s vitally autonomous and democratic elections in Mexico that’s causing much concern
Read moreMexico Pumps Another 47 Million Pesos into Dos Bocas
Dos Bocas originally received 46.2 billion pesos in the construction budget for the year 2019, 45.5 billion pesos in 2020, 113.7 billion pesos in 2021 and 60.9 billion pesos in 2022, with an additional 47.2 billion pesos now allotted to the project for 2023
Read morePlan B Could Cause Nationwide Electoral Collapse, Says INE
What Morena wants is for public servants to be able to broadcast propaganda and to contract advertising with no electoral body
Read moreAMLO Administration Proposes 4.4 Billion Peso Budget Slash to the INE
By KELIN DILLON After years of threatening to reduce the efficacy of Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration and National Regeneration Movement (Morena) – acting under López Obrador’s Fourth Transformation (4T) campaign promise – finally attempted to make good on its promise, proposing to slash the INE’s requested budget for 2023 by 4.475
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Read moreTren Maya Construction Slogs through Supply, Permit Delays
By KELIN DILLON According to reports from operators working on the construction of Mexico’s controversial public megaproject the Tren Maya – documents which were leaked to the public by hacktivist group Guacamaya – the project is facing multiple supply and permitting delays that could push the Tren Maya’s completion far beyond its estimated December 2023 delivery date. These issues join
Read moreAMLO Spends 85 Percent of Mexico’s Decades-Old Savings Fund
By KELIN DILLON According to a new report conducted by daily Mexican newspaper El Universal, Mexico has spent more than 85 percent of its savings since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) entered office in 2018. These funds, housed in the Budget Income Stabilization Funds (FEIP) and the Income Stabilization Fund of the Federal Entities (FEIEF), had built up
Read moreMexico Continually Fails to Meet Oil Performance Goals
By KELIN DILLON As Mexico continues to put focus on its home-grown oil assets as part of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) initiative for the nation’s energy self-sufficiency, which has included investments such as the costly construction of the Dos Bocas crude oil refinery in Tabasco, Mexico continues to move away from meeting its annual oil production goals —
Read moreCitizen Concerns on Militarization Grow amid GN Budget Increases
By KELIN DILLON Mexican citizens are reportedly becoming increasingly concerned about Mexico’s perceived militarization following President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) unilateral decision to expand the National Guard’s (GN) budget and recently discussed intentions to absorb the group into Mexico’s Secretariat of Defense (Sedena), which would turn the National Guard from civilian command to military control by way of presidential
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