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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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) so-called electoral reform bill, which he announced during his Thursday, April 28, press conference at the National Palace and sent to Congress for approval that same day, has one purpose and one purpose only: to further consolidate power in his dictatorial hands and to essentially eradicate any political opposition
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON After years of repeated talk about reforming Mexico’s electoral system, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Thursday, April 28, that he would be sending his new electoral reform legislation to Mexican Congress, which would replace the autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) with an organization called the Institute of National Elections and Consultation, as
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, April 20, Mexican legislator and president of the Political Coordination Board of the Senate, Ricardo Monreal – the namesake for one of in-power political party the National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) controversial pieces of legislation – called on his fellow party members during Wednesday’s plenary session to “stop the lynching campaign” against opposition parties for
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) must be having a hissy fit. Already furious that his absurd electricity reform bill (which would have rewritten the Mexican Constitution to prioritize the use of energy generated by state-owned, carbon-based providers over clean, private-sector alternatives) got dashed by a united opposition in the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday,
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By KELIN DILLON Just one day after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform was blocked from passing by opposition members of the Chamber of Deputies, López Obrador returned with a new initiative – legislation nationalizing Mexico’s natural lithium supply – for the parliamentary chamber to vote on during its Monday, April 18, session. Never one to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After his much-touted electricity reform bill — which would have prioritized state-run carbon-based energy sources over cleaner alternatives from private companies — was defeated in a historic vote at the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday, April 17, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) called all those legislators who voted against it “traitors to
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The fact that members of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party have no qualms about bending — and even breaking — the law in order to achieve their goals is nothing new. We already saw this evidenced in how blatantly the party violated electoral laws in order to promote
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a blow to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) ongoing efforts to concentrate all political power and federal spending decisions into his person, the country’s Supreme Court (CSJN) on Tuesday, April 5, ruled that he will no longer be able to decide how to discretionally dispose of financial resources saved by his
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar reprimanded Mexico’s lower house Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, March 24, for launching a Mexico-Russia Friendship Group one day earlier with Moscow’s envoy Víktor Koronelli in tow. Speaking before the same parliamentarians, Salazar said that in the midst of Russia’s brutal invasion into Ukraine, “this sort of endorsement”
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