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 KELIN DILLON Just 12 days after the “inauguration of the first construction stage” of Mexico’s controversial Dos Bocas refinery, approximately 200 laborers contracted to work on the Tabasco-based project protested their unjustified dismissal from the project outside of the under-construction refinery’s gate on Wednesday, July 13. According to the protestors, the workers were initially hired by Control Ingeniería y
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Less than three and a half months after he cut the ribbon on his new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) — which, due to a plethora of problems, such as a lack of working conveyor belts to move luggage and no viable public transportation to and from the hub, is still receiving just 12 flights per day
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Just hours after a federal judge ordered a definite suspension of all construction on Section 5 of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial Tren Maya tourist train on Monday, May 30, the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur) declared that work on that segment of the railway would continue anyway. In a statement
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is back in the news now that U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar announced last week a potential $500 billion investment in the new transoceanic project to link up Salina Cruz in the Pacific with the Coatzacoalcos port in the Gulf of Mexico. Hazy as Salazar’s financial plan may be for now,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a blow to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) ongoing efforts to concentrate all political power and federal spending decisions into his person, the country’s Supreme Court (CSJN) on Tuesday, April 5, ruled that he will no longer be able to decide how to discretionally dispose of financial resources saved by his
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF London’s esteemed Financial Times (FT) newspaper on Sunday, March 6, called on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to “learn from his mistakes” and “to rethink his policies” that are dragging the country back to the 1960s. “López Obrador was famous for defying political gravity,” the world’s leading business publication said in an
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The cost of Mexico’s Dos Bocas refinery — one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s pet megaprojects — is expected to cost 40 percent more than previously estimated — some $3.6 billion more — and is unlikely to be completed before the government’s 2022 deadline, inside sources reported. Construction of the 340,000-barrel-per-day refinery is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s financially strapped state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is slated to take control of the Deer Park refinery, located in Texas, on Thursday, Jan. 20, in accordance with a purchase agreement with the Anglo-Dutch transnational corporation Royal Dutch Shell, which currently owns half of the oil processing plant. In May of last year,
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By KELIN DILLON Though Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) under construction Dos Bocas refinery maintains its planned July 1, 2022, launch date, new reports reveal the crude oil processing plant will take more than a year to operate at full capacity, which is anticipated to occur in September of 2023. As per López Obrador’s schedule, the full operations
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