By KELIN DILLON Following the Monday, Jan. 31, historic digital vote for the leadership of the state-run Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Oil Workers Union (STPRM), Ricardo Aldana, the STPRM treasurer both under controversial former inion leader Carlos Romero Deschamps and in the present day, won the election in a landslide, with 70 percent of the votes. While there were 25 candidates
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By KELIN DILLON As 90,000 workers from Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) prepare to vote in the first-ever direct election for leadership for Pemex’s Oil Workers Union (STPRM) on Jan. 31, tensions are heating up between the election’s 25 candidates as the vote grows closer and closer. The union vote stems from recent reforms to Mexico’s labor legislature,
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By KELIN DILLON Workers from Mexico’s Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil business have alleged that company unions forced them to injure and mutilate themselves in order for the union to collect insurance money, reports a story from the daily Mexican newspaper El Universal. The union purportedly manipulated the employees to cause an accident within the Pemex facilities “because another worker is
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Erstwhile Aztec and Spaniards Meet in Court A major political war between the modern conquest version of the Aztec versus the Spaniards is now being wagered in Mexico between conservative and liberal forces. The conflict was sparked by the controversial ruling made by Second District Court for the Administration, Economic Competency and Broadcast Services for Mexico City
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A case that is currently making ripples in the turbulent waters of Mexican politics today began when the well-known lawyer Juan Collado Mocelo was arrested on Tuesday, July 9, at high-end Mexico City eatery Morton’s Steak House in Lomas de Chapultepec. At the moment of his arrest, Collado Mocelo was eating with one of his clients, Pemex
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It was an odd but politically meaningful meeting at the National Palace on Wednesday, May 1 (International Labor Day), when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) offered an official lunch to the country’s most important union leaders. Odd because many of the leaders belong to a kind of club that is nicknamed in political circles the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Carlos Romero Deschamps, head of the powerful Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) workers group, the Mexican Oil Workers Union (STPRM), said Wednesday, Jan. 31, that he is not concerned about the alleged charges against him. Earlier in the day, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Romero Deschamps will soon be charged with alleged fuel
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By RICARDO CASTILLO By shutting off the ducts carrying fuel from the state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in order to stop robbery, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) opened up a Pandora’s box. His problem is now how to shut it closed again. AMLO’s open declaration of war against huachicol (pronounce wa-chee-kol), or fuel theft, is, 17 days since it
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The good news is that by moving the Mexican Army to take over Pemex oil refineries, refined fuels theft stopped almost overnight. The bad news is that, nowadays, the residents of the Guanajuato, Querétaro, Michoacán, Jalisco and State of Mexico (Edoméx) can´t get a liter of green or red gas for their vehicles. Theft stopped, but the
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