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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The number of impoverished Mexicans with full-time jobs increased by roughly 10 percent in the first quarter of 2021, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) and the National Council of Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval). In a joint report published on Tuesday, May 18, the Inegi and Coneval stated
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By KELIN DILLON In the two years of the current presidential administration, Mexico’s government only gave out scholarships to 10 percent of its disabled population, while cutting millions of pesos in funding from the organization that defends their human rights, leaving the country’s disabled community hung out to dry amid the devastating covid-19 pandemic. According to the National Institute of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Bleak Outlook on Poverty There is no question that Mexico’s gross domestic product will plummet this year. The question is how much it will fall, and guesses range from between 5.7 percent to 10.5 percent. A recent study by the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development (Coneval) presented two different economic scenarios for the rest
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