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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Mexican Government Presents 2022 Budget Proposal
By KELIN DILLON On the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 8, Mexican Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) Rogelio Ramírez de la O presented Mexico’s 2022 budget plan to the Chamber of Deputies under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), featuring no increase in taxes, increased spending in the health sector, and historical levels of public investment.
Read moreSlow Economic Growth Limits Mexico’s 2022 Budget
By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is expected to present Mexico’s 2022 Budget to the nation’s Congress on Wednesday, Sept. 8, the country is not expected to have any significant advances in public spending due to a number of debilitating economic factors brought on by the effects of the year-and-a-half-long covid-19 pandemic. During 2020 and
Read moreA Myopic AMLO Sings his own Praises, Merited or Not
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite a dramatic 74 percent uptick in violent crimes, a 7.3 percent increase in poverty, a contraction of the national economy every year since he took office, and, lest we forget, a dismal mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of nearly 260,000 Mexicans (and that’s just based on the official numbers, outside
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Read moreMexico Asks US to Resolve Rules of Origin Dispute
XINHUA The Mexican government has filed a petition with the United States to open a period of consultation to resolve differences over automotive rules of origin that were established under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the Economy Secretariat reported Sunday, Aug.22. The petition, which was formally filed on Aug. 20, gives both governments a period of 75 days to resolve the
Read moreThe Last Gasping Breaths of Mexico’s National Action Party
By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The president of Mexico’s conservative National Action Party (PAN), Marko Cortés, was recently faced with the dilemma of having to choose between being the key to the party’s transition in a post-Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Mexico or watching the it surrender its last semblance of political relevancy after having been severely battered in the 2012
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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
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