By DAMIÁN ESCALANTE Mexico’s Congress approved a reform on Thursday, April 22, that will once again allow the state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to monopolize the sale of hydrocarbons throughout the country. The initiative, which passed the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, April 21 and the Senate on Thursday, was presented by Manuel Rodríguez, president of the Energy Commission
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By KELIN DILLON The National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) coordinator of the parliamentary process in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, Pablo Gómez, has assured that there will be no two-year extension of Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) President Arturo Zaldívar’s term, despite its proposal by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). According to Gómez, even if the extension
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By KELIN DILLON Following an eight-hour debate, Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies approved Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) outsourcing bill without a single change, sending it to the Senate for further analysis and ratification. Much of the eight-hour debate was taken up rejecting the 38 reservations and proposals for modification from various parliamentary groups, after which the vote was
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies is set to debate proposed legislation to legalize marijuana in the country on Wednesday, March 10, following two special committees of the Congress’ lower house approving drafts of the bill on Monday evening, with expectation of the bill’s passage later in the week. The legislation, which is supported by Mexican President Andrés Manuel
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By KELIN DILLON Since taking office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been increasingly flexing his mounting power, showing anyone who dares to cross him that they will face his angry retribution, as he attempts to consolidate the government’s control over the nation. López Obrador has now come for the Superior Audit of the Federation
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General (FGR) on Tuesday, Feb. 23, accused current Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca of committing a number of crimes, including collaborating with organized gangs and tax fraud, creating outrage among the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) opposition, and raising questions about just how far President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) Morena will
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Electricity Bill It will come as no surprise for most people in Mexico that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) Electricity Reform Bill was approved by the Chamber of Deputies, as programmed by Congress’ majority rule, now in the hands of the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party, and will now head to the Senate. If
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In yet another bruising blow to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s headstrong efforts to undo the country’s Energy Reform, implemented in 2014 by his predecessor Enrique Peña Nieto, the national Chamber of Deputies’ Economic, Commercial and Competitive Commision (CECC) rejected his Electricity Reform Bill, which would limit grid providers almost exclusively to the
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By KELIN DILLON Over 196.7 billion pesos in investment into Mexico’s energy sector are now in jeopardy, following Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial proposals to reform the nation’s electric industry, according to opponents of the bill. The proposed law would allow Mexico’s government-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) to gain priority over private energy plants to upload their
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ancira Negotiations Imprisoned Mexican steel tycoon Alonso Ancira’s lawyer, José Luis Castañeda, continued negotiations at the Mexico City North Penitentiary late Tuesday, Feb. 9, and finally came up with a figure that his client will have to pay to win his freedom. In an out-of-court negotiation still to be ratified, Mexico’s state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex)
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