By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), incensed by District Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro’s suspension of his controversial reform to Mexico’s electricity sector the previous day, launched a public tirade against anyone and everyone he deemed his enemies, ranging from foreign countries to his own presidential predecessors, during his daily press conference on the morning of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO New Mexican Tourist Resort Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Saturday visited the largest of the three islands, popularly known as “Las Marías,” off the coast of Nayarit in the Pacific Ocean. During his visit, AMLO announced that in three months the archipelago, which once served as a federal prison, would open up to tourists as
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once famously quipped, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” The point that Disraeli was trying to make is that the selective use of numbers can bolster any argument and disguise any truths to accommodate a political agenda. Nowhere is that persuasive power of carefully culled figures more
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Lozoya Case Postponed The start date for the trial of former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya Austin was postponed on request of the Mexican Attorney General’s Office due to pandemic-related complications. The deadline was supposed to be last Sunday, March 7. Judge José Artemio Zúñiga Mendoza, however, granted investigators more time to conclude the presentation of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Women March Nationwide From A and B to Y and Z, Mexican women will protest in Monday, March 8, International Women’s Day, against macho violence in the nation. Though in the past, much of the attention of previous demonstrations has been centered around the Mexico City main square Zócalo, this year the programming for the protests will
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Newly instated Bolivian President Luis Arce will pay an official visit to Mexico on Wednesday, March 24, at the invitation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in order to participate in the observance of Indigenous Peoples Resistance Day the following day. }The Indigenous Peoples Resistance Day celebration is part of a larger month-long
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Pemex Drops Fitch, But It’s Not Reciprocal The Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) dropped the international ratings firm Fitch from its budget on Tuesday, March 2, saying that it “no longer needs” the New York-based company’s services. Fitch’s ratings of the humongous Pemex debt has been harsh, and in its latest move. Fitch downgraded
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Committees Approve Energy Bill Late Monday, March 1, the Mexican Senate’s Energy, Environment and Legislative Studies Committees approved President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electric energy bill, which went to the Senate floor on Tuesday, March 2, for a fast-track vote. AMLO had asked Congress to approve the bill without even the slightest of changes, despite
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO, Biden in Virtual Meet On Monday, March 1, U.S. President Joe Biden is slated to hold a virtual conference with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). This will be the second virtual gathering both presidents have, the last one having been on Jan. 22. According to White House sources, the two are expected to discuss
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Cabeza de Vaca Jumps the Gun After Tamaulipas Governor Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, along with his fellow National Action Party (PAN) deputies, headed by minority leader Carlos Romero Hicks, took the facility nearly by storm on Wednesday, Feb. 24, and held a press conference claiming that he was a victim of a witch hunt being directed
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