Morena Sets Sights Against Autonomous Institutions
The constitutional reforms proposes the government absorption or outright elimination of several of Mexico’s autonomous organizations
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Mexico in the Midst of Geopolitical Chess
Amid all the geopolitical shifts, political changes are also coming in Mexico
Read moreSocial Deprivations Rise, Poverty Falls in Mexico
National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy’s 2022 Poverty Measurement Estimates revealed key issues affecting Mexico’s low income communities
Read moreWhat AMLO Got Wrong, According to Experts
By MARK LORENZANA Economic experts in Mexico have questioned the numbers that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) presented in his fourth State of the Nation Address (Informe de Gobierno) at the National Palace in Mexico City on the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 1, and accused him of “not sticking to reality.” The analysts, in a report by Mexican
Read moreNYT: AMLO Only Making Poverty in Mexico Worse
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a scathing report on the state of poverty in Mexico, the New York Times (NYT) on Monday, July 18, pointed out that while President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has repeatedly claimed that fighting poverty is his most important priority, nearly every policy he has enacted has only served to hurt the poor. Nearly four years
Read moreFormer SRE Undersecretary: Next Election Hinges on Middle Class
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The results of Mexico’s 2024 presidential election will be determined by the country’s middle class, a former Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) said this week. Writing in the April 11 edition of the newsletter of the U.S.-based trimonthly magazine Americas Quarterly, former SRE Undersecretary and current professor of public policy at the London School of
Read moreAMLO’s Bienestar Universities Cost Millions, Educate Few
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With 140 campuses nationwide, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) highly touted Benito Juárez García Bienestar Universities (UBBJ) have not had the public response that the president would have liked. In fact, enrollment is so low that some of the Bienestar universities barely have anyone registered for classes, such as the one in Yahualica,
Read morePoverty up 7.3 Percent Under AMLO
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In the nearly three years that leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been in power, an additional 3.8 million Mexicans have fallen into poverty, and of those, 55 percent have dropped below the extreme poverty line, according to a report issued Thursday, Aug. 5, by the National Council for the Evaluation of
Read moreMexico Among LA Nations with Highest Economic Disparity
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico, along with Chile and Brazil, had the highest economic inequality among Latin American countries, according to a regional report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) released earlier this week. “Despite decades of progress, the region continues to be the second-most-unequal in the world (after the African sub-Sahara), and income inequality in Latin
Read moreAMLO’s War on Middle Class is Self-Defeating
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Friday, June 11, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) used his morning press conference to yet again badger his opponents, this time lashing out against the country’s middle classes for daring to vote against him and his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party. Finally admitting that he was not all that “feliz, feliz, feliz” (“happy,
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