OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO Old habits die hard! Mexico’s democratic political system is currently undergoing a return to an age-old political habit once known as “la sucesión” (“the succession”), in which one candidate was picked to replace the man in power. This succession routine became a political mainstay back in the days of one-party rule, and was ruthlessly enforced by
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By KELIN DILLON While the lengthy and controversial saga between Mexico’s federal government and private sector energy has been going on for some time now, recently implemented changes to the network code of Mexico’s national power grid will once more see the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) given priority upload over the private sector and green energy alternatives. Mexico’s first
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER After a resounding failure to pass his controversial electricity reform bill in the April 17 vote at the Chamber of Deputies, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his leftist, in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party have set their aim on yet another target: the opposition. That campaign is gaining traction by Morena further
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON After a brutal rebuff of his constitutional energy reform by opposition members of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies this past April, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is on a quest for vengeance against these so-called “traitors of the nation” – a warpath, it seems, that will now put opponents to the energy reform, both politicians
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that a Mexican federal court last month granted a legal injunction to the Spanish energy firm Iberdrola that would allow it to continue operating its Dulces Nombres power plant in Pesquería, Nuevo León, and requiring that the country’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reconnect it to the national grid, the CFE has
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform was blocked from passing in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, the constitutionality of his Electricity Industry Law (LIE) has now been called into question once again as it has been revealed that the head of the Supreme Court (SCJN), Arturo Zaldívarm incorrectly registered the votes
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Failing to point out, protest or become indignant at the illegal behavior and actions of public servants, which we had come to believe was a thing of the past, is the new norm that is giving credence to the thesis of authoritarian and caudillista regression in Mexico, supported by an exacerbated populism expressed to describe
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a political win for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) on Thursday, April 7, declared that his controversial electricity reform, which prioritizes state-run carbon-based energy sources over clean alternatives, does not violate the country’s Constitution. With four out of 11 votes, the SCJN rejected a declaration of unconstitutionality of
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