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 —
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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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AMLO Shares the Wealth
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By KELIN DILLON While work on the fifth section of Mexico’s controversial Tren Maya project was purportedly suspended by a Mexican federal judge last April after the project failed to acquire proper Environmental Impact Statements (MIA) ahead of its construction, building on the Tren Maya’s fifth section has reportedly continued on in spite of the judge’s ruling – and with
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By KELIN DILLON Just 12 days after the “inauguration of the first construction stage” of Mexico’s controversial Dos Bocas refinery, approximately 200 laborers contracted to work on the Tabasco-based project protested their unjustified dismissal from the project outside of the under-construction refinery’s gate on Wednesday, July 13. According to the protestors, the workers were initially hired by Control Ingeniería y
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By KELIN DILLON After repeated contention between Mexico’s autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) and the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), which resulted in the National Regeneration Movement-led (Morena) Chamber of Deputies attempting to slash the INE’s budget by 5 billion pesos amid the country’s mandate revocation controversy, the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) – Mexico’s highest court
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First Quarter Deficit
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By KELIN DILLON Just two days after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced his intention to reform Mexico’s electoral system, the Mexican executive took to his daily morning press conference on Wednesday, March 30, to share a new extension to the reform, which would eliminate multi-member councils under the pretext of budget savings. If AMLO’s reform passes in
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Feb. 2, Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) ordered the autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) to follow through with its mandate revocation consultation as far as the confines of its predetermined annual budget will allow it, and similarly created a protective shield for the INE’s General Council members from any criminal responsibility administrative action surrounding the process.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s lower house Chamber of Deputies pulled out all the stops when it came to spending in the second half of 2021, handing out untendered contracts right and left (well, maybe more left than right) for unbidded-on services and goods in an effort to use up its allocated annual budget. During the second session
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