By KELIN DILLON The official campaigns for Mexico’s upcoming June 2021 midterm elections kicked off in the wee hours of Sunday, April 4, as 21,000 official government seats are up for the vote. Due to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, the electoral process has looked a little different this year, with many candidates opting to hold virtual rallies to maintain social
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Salgado Macedonia Keeps Going and Going and Going It seems that wannabe Guerrero governor Félix Salgado Macedonio just can’t take “no” for an answer. Despite the fact that both the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Guerrero Electoral Institute approved the cancelation of his candidacy for Mexico’s June 6 elections on grounds that he did not fully report
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico has cemented itself in recent history as the world’s largest provider of illegal heroin to the United States, contributing to the northern country’s opioid crisis and exacerbating the southern country’s issues with narcotrafficking. As conversation increases more and more about Mexico’s potential decriminalization of opium production, it’s important now more than ever to understand how
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s beginning of 2021 has started off on a violent, deadly foot. according to figures from the organization Causa en Común (Cause in Common), which registered 963 victims of atrocity in the country already this year. Cause in Common defines an atrocity as any intentional use of force to cause death, laceration or extreme mistreatment and provocation
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By RICARDO CASTILLO While here in Mexico, President Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, March 3, was celebrating the 58 to 48 passage (with 22 abstentions) of his electricity reform bill the night before by the Senate, back in Texas the state government was busy issuing walking papers to nonprofit Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot) CEO Bill Magness, considered
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Electricity Reform Bill Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Sunday, Feb. 21, pleaded with Congress to pass his electricity reform bill. “I hope next week the (electricity) reform I presented to Congress will be approved to help strengthen the (state-owned) Federal Electricity Commission (CFE),” he said. AMLO spoke about the electricity bill in two acts
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Energy Control Center (Cenace) has been planning strategically timed blackouts across the country to help reduce energy consumption following a low supply of natural gas, which have now been affecting parts of Mexico that were never planned to lose power. Northern Mexico mainly uses gas to generate its energy, and the Texas pipeline that brings
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Outages Set Off Political Sparks The electricity outages on Monday, Feb. 15, in six northern Mexican states may have been caused by the freezing temperatures affecting Texas, but they set off a new round of heated debates at Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO’s) Electricity Bill. Beyond Texas’ pumped gas shortage,
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By KELIN DILLON Power outages on the morning of Monday, Feb. 16, left 4.7 million Mexican homes in the northern Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, Chihuahua, and Tamaulipas without lights or energy, following freezing temperatures that even led to snowfall in parts of the country. Outages also afflicted the United States in states bordering Mexico, like Texas, where 2.8
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Russian Vaccínea The Mexican Public Health Secretariat on Monday, Jan. 25, published in the Official Gazette the ordinance outlining the purchase of covid-19 vaccines by private citizens, companies and state governments. No doubt, the announcement was rushed to the government’s newspaper spurred on by the announcement that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was buying 24 million
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