By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Día de la Revolución (Revolution Day) officially falls on Nov. 20, but in recent years, the holiday is observed on the third Monday of the month in order to allow workers to enjoy a long holiday weekend. This year, it will be celebrated as a national holiday on Monday, Nov. 18. The holiday
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … One week after the heinous murder of nine members of the Mormon community in Mexico, there are still no answers as to who the perpetrators are…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There are two facts of life about Mexican democracy: One, it is run and operated by an autonomous organization, the National Electoral Institute (INE), and two, it is one of the most expensive government-subsidized democracies in the world. At this time of year, it is relevant to take the above-mentioned facts into consideration because at the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A great majority of observers claim that the registration of candidates for the presidency of Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is more than a dismal farce: It is the rise of the living dead. Several candidates registered to contend for the post, but among all of them, the governor-on-leave of the southeastern state of Campeche, Alejandro Moreno
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Is the Damocles sword a mythical tale? Surely not for Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who now sees it swinging over his political neck like a pendulum in the form of international rating agencies Fitch, Moody’s and S&P. The awesome rating threesome has lashed out against Mexico, putting the nation’s economy not on a downward
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It seems that about once a week, U.S. ratings are playing an old racist version of the Whac-A-Mole carnival game with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). In these now-defunct fairs, pitchers would be given three balls to throw at a black man – a real person – in an attempt to hit him. Behind the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While newly inaugurated Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was busy celebrating his elaborate and elongated, multi-sited inaugural ceremony, entertaining more than 20 foreign heads of state – including the likes of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro (a shining pillar of Latin American democracy, justice and respect for human rights, at its very best), Bolivian President Evo
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The rumblings of the upcoming Constitutional Wars are growing thunderous in Mexico’s cloudy political skies. Over the past two weeks, the group of 12 National Action Party (PAN) governors across the nation are threatening a rebellion against the “dictatorship” of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his majority in both houses of Congress through the National
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The body of Patrick Braxton-Andrew, a North Carolina school teacher who went missing in Mexico last month while on vacation, has been found shot to death on a dirt road near where he had been staying, according to local police officials. The 34-year-old teacher, who was reported missing on Oct. 28 after he did not
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It was 30 years ago that Mexico took a veritable turn towards becoming a democratic system. At the time, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) still ruled the nation. Yet the man who became president on Dec. 1, 1988, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, noticed that the lights had changed and that the PRI had to let go of
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