OPINION By KELIN DILLON After a brutal rebuff of his constitutional energy reform by opposition members of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies this past April, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is on a quest for vengeance against these so-called “traitors of the nation” – a warpath, it seems, that will now put opponents to the energy reform, both politicians
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) so-called electoral reform bill, which he announced during his Thursday, April 28, press conference at the National Palace and sent to Congress for approval that same day, has one purpose and one purpose only: to further consolidate power in his dictatorial hands and to essentially eradicate any political opposition
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, April 20, Mexican legislator and president of the Political Coordination Board of the Senate, Ricardo Monreal – the namesake for one of in-power political party the National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) controversial pieces of legislation – called on his fellow party members during Wednesday’s plenary session to “stop the lynching campaign” against opposition parties for
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Deputy Carlos Miguel Aysa Damas’ political suicide on Easter Sunday, April 17, may have turned out to be all in vain. After having “sold out” to Andrés Manuel Loóez Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morean) party by voting in favor of the president’s controversial electricity reform bill — which would
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a sign that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) unbridled political power is finally beginning to wane, opposition members of the country’s lower house Chamber of Deputies mustered enough votes on Sunday, April 17, to block the passage of his controversial electricity reform bill, which would have prioritized contaminating carbon-based energy sources from state-run entities
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just hours after Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) declared President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) electricity reform bill “constitutional” (in a bizarre four in favor-seven against vote that somehow favored the ayes over the nays), U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar late Thursday, April 7, warned that if the electrical reform promoted by the president
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a political win for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) on Thursday, April 7, declared that his controversial electricity reform, which prioritizes state-run carbon-based energy sources over clean alternatives, does not violate the country’s Constitution. With four out of 11 votes, the SCJN rejected a declaration of unconstitutionality of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, April 6, accused the U,S, government of meddling in Mexican internal affairs and lobbying against his proposed electricity reform bill, which would prioritize carbon-based energy from state-run companies over clean energy from private sources. “Basically the United States, the United States government, I know, have
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AMLO’s Electricity Reform Bill
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) claimed on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 5, that his phone call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier in the day had been all smooth sailing, with Trudeau showing no opposition to his proposed electricity reform, the Canadian leader presented a very different interpretation of
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