By KELIN DILLON Just one day after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform was blocked from passing by opposition members of the Chamber of Deputies, López Obrador returned with a new initiative – legislation nationalizing Mexico’s natural lithium supply – for the parliamentary chamber to vote on during its Monday, April 18, session. Never one to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After his much-touted electricity reform bill — which would have prioritized state-run carbon-based energy sources over cleaner alternatives from private companies — was defeated in a historic vote at the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday, April 17, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) called all those legislators who voted against it “traitors to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what constituted his third visit in the last five months, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry flew to Mexico on Thursday, March 31, to meet with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on the issue of his proposed electricity reform bill. Kerry, who, along with a delegation of nine U.S.
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, March 1, the cooling towers of Mexico’s state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) thermoelectric plant in Mérida, Yucatán, collapsed in an incident facility workers say was triggered by a lack of maintenance. Ironically, the plant’s structural failure comes amid Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) repeated talk-ups of CFE infrastructure as the executive looks to
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XINHUA Mexico needs a “comprehensive reform agenda” to boost investment and economic growth, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said Monday, Feb. 21. After cutting its economic forecast for Mexico’s growth expectations for 2022 from 3.3 percent to just 2.3 percent, OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann, warned that in order to spur higher growth, Mexico would have to
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The Latin America Advisor asks six leading Mexico experts
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER If the cancellation of the construction of New Mexico City International Airport (NAICM) in Texcoco had devastating effects on the Mexican economy — due to the exorbitant cost (estimated by the government’s own Superior Audit offices as being somewhere between 184 billion pesos and 332 billion pesos) but also because of the dubious signal it
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF If President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform bill — which would prioritize the use of contaminating carbon-based sources over clean alternatives — passes in Congress, the use of sulfur-heavy bunker oil, or combustóleo, in Mexico could increase by up to 1,109 percent per year, according to the 21st Century Power Partnership
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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