By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what critics have called an unabashed attempt to force airlines to use the newly inaugurated, but poorly received, Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA), the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, May 2, announced that it will restrict incoming and outgoing flights at Mexico City’s Benito Juárez International Airport
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s covid-19 czar, Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell, said Tuesday, Dec. 7, that the country will soon stop requiring international visitors to fill in questionnaires regarding their health on arrival in the country. López-Gatell said that there is no evidence that this measure, which was implemented earlier this year by the Communications and Transportation
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Pandora Papers, which were released on Sunday, Oct. 3, by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), exposing the offshore financial havens and hidden riches of some of the world’s biggest movers and shakers, has opened a whole new can of worms for the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS With the reopening of Canada to nonessential travel, Air Canada began restarting flights between Mexico and the Land of the Maple Leaf this week, but said it has no plans to use President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial pet project of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) in Santa Lucia. During an online media conference on Wednesday,
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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 RICARDO CASTILLO Jiménez Espriú Resigns After accepting the resignation of Communications and Transportation Secretary (SCT) Javier Jiménez Espriú, Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) announced this week that the new secretary will be Jorge Arganis Díaz Leal. Jiménez Espriú turned in his resignation last week after AMLO announced that all customs houses were going to be managed by
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Upon turning over the care of the country’s customs service to the military on July 17 in Manzanillo port, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) finished his statement by saying that the times of “el que no transa, no avanza” (“he who does not double deal does not avance”) are over. The saying is a favorite
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Trembling Back to the Workplace Fearing both the covid-19 contagion and not having money to make ends meet, limited numbers of Mexican auto and construction industries workers reported to work on Monday, June 1. The Mexican tourism industry is being more cautious and postponing opening until later in the month. Unions at the auto, construction and mining
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Reverse Remittances While the Central Bank of Mexico has already begun whining about the potential drop in dollar-denominated remittances from the roughly 36 million Mexican workers in the United States, down to $29 billion in 2020, its U.S. counterpart, the Federal Reserve (Fed) is reporting that as of last January and through Thursday, April 2, Mexican investors
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Was there or was there not corruption involved in the construction of the now-defunct New International Mexico Airport (NAIM)? Just Monday, July 15, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said there was corruption in many of the already-awarded construction contracts, while Communications and Transportation Secretary (SCT) Javier Jiménez Espriú stated that corruption was not an issue
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