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AMLO Says He Will Cancel Energy Contracts without Compensation

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Friday, March 25, that under his controversial proposed Electricity Reform Bill, which would prioritize state-run companies using carbon-based fuels over private clean energy sources, there will be no government compensation for losses incurred by private-sector suppliers. In response to concerns expressed by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, who on

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Ukrainian Envoy: Mexican Deputies’ Friendship with Russia ‘Shameful’

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Oksana Dramaretska, Ukraine’s ambassador to Mexico, on Friday, March 25, criticized the Mexico-Russia Friendship Group formed by the Mexican Chamber of Deputies two days earlier. In a interview with Radio Formula, Dramaretska said that the legislators who endorsed the group — mostly from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena)

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Azerbaijani Embassy Rings in Spring with Nowrūz Celebration

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Azerbaijani Embassy in Mexico hosted a daylong celebration of the festival of Nowrūz, an ancient spring holiday, at Mexico City’s Lincoln Park on Saturday, March 19. The open-air celebration, which was hosted by Azerbaijani Ambassador to Mexico Mammad Talibov, his wife Kamala Talibova and their daughter Faray Talibli, included a performance of traditional Azeri dances by

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US Envoy Warns AMLO’s Energy Reform Could Stall Investment

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar — who in February stirred diplomat waters by contradicting the Joe Biden administration when he said that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) “is right” about his country’s energy sector requiring reforms — said Friday, March 18, that the president’s reform will discourage investment in Mexico. Salazar

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Argentine President Proposes Leftist Alliance with Mexico, Brazil

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a letter made publish by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Sunday, March 13, Argentine President Alberto Fernández, a diehard populist who has backed López Obrador’s leftist policies, proposed the creation of a regional socialist alliance between Mexico, Argentina and Brazil to combat capitalism. In the letter, dated March 9, Fernández

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Sale of Mexican Artifact Suspended in Austria

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The auction of a Pre-Columbian archaeological artifact, which was slated to go on the block at Vienna’s Zacke Gallery on Friday, March 11, was suspended this week thanks to the intervention of the Mexican government, the Austrian Embassy in Mexico announced on Thursday, March 10. The item, a carved stone ballgame yoke presumably from

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Mexican Economy Secretary Calls Increased Ties with China ‘Fruitful’

XINHUA Mexico and China have made significant gains from cooperation in trade and other areas since the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations 50 years ago, Mexican Economy Secretary Tatiana Clouthier said last week. “We are very pleased” with the “significant achievements that have been cultivated over time,” Clouthier said in an interview with the Chinese news agency Xinhua. “China is

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