By CAROLINE BRENNAN Rosi Orozco grew up in a “loving family” where she said she “received so many blessings.” And it was this fortunate personal history that she said embedded in her a sense of giving back to the community. For the past 16 years, Orozco has devoted her time and energy to an afflicted segment of society that has
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By KELIN DILLON After recent adjustments, members of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies will now be allowed to receive more than 234,000 pesos per month in stipends without paying taxes, triple their mensual salary and standing in stark contrast to the funding decrease of the nation’s cultural and scientific sectors. Some 330 deputies receive paid airplane tickets to travel across
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By KELIN DILLON After more than 30 hours of debate, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) income package finally passed through Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, Oct. 20, sending it on to the Senate for further approval. The Chamber of Deputies passage left in place the controversial provision that reduces the amount of money individuals and companies can
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies debated over potential changes to the country’s Income Tax Law on Tuesday, Oct. 19, particularly concerning areas that would cause civil society organizations (CSOs) to receive less donations, differences between the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and opposition parties resulted in a number of unprofessional situations, including deputies turning their backs and
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Oct. 18, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) 2022 National Income Package was approved by the Chamber of Deputies’ Economic Commission, including all its proposed reforms to the nation’s Income Tax Law (ISR). The package, which now passes to the full Chamber for passage, controversially proposes the registration of all legal Mexican adults over
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Commission of Finance and Public Credit of the Chamber of Deputies introduced its 2020 Income Package on Saturday, Oct. 16, to be debated and voted on Monday, Oct. 18. The package reveals an anticipated 4.1 percent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth and an estimated exchange rate of 20.3 pesos to the U.S. dollar, as well as
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By KELIN DILLON As the blowback from the ongoing worker’s strike of Mexico’s under-construction Dos Bocas refinery over labor abuses continues, Secretary of Energy Rocío Nahle has come under fire by members of her very own party, the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena), for her purported role in covering up the dispute. After a violent clash at the facility, which
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electric reform continues to receive pushback, including the recent rejection of the proposal by 18 members of the Institutional Revolution Party (PRI), the executive and his own party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) have acquiesced to being open toward changes to the reform. Despite this newfound receptivity toward
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Halfway through his six-year term, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may claim that nearly 60 percent of Mexicans still support him and his leftist Fourth Transformation (4T) administration, but it’s the remaining 40 percent he needs to worry about. Not only did his National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party lose significant political terrain in the June
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By KELIN DILLON On the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 8, Mexican Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) Rogelio Ramírez de la O presented Mexico’s 2022 budget plan to the Chamber of Deputies under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), featuring no increase in taxes, increased spending in the health sector, and historical levels of public investment.
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