By MARK LORENZANA Javier May, director of Mexico’s National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur), promised residents from the town of Pomuch in the southeast Mexican state of Campeche that the profits from the Tren Maya — one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial pet megaprojects — will be used to increase pension payments to senior citizens.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Friday, April 29, that he has ordered the expropriation of all private land that crosses the Tren Maya tourist train route, property which he said is currently is in the hands of real estate agents who “are only out to make a profit.” Speaking during his
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government’s Secretariat of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (Sedatu) announced Monday, Jan. 17, that it had formalized the expropriation of 198 privately owned properties in three municipalities of Quintana Roo, through which the Tren Maya tourist train will pass, representing a total area of 2.41 million square meters. All the properties, which
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) this week expropriated 109 hectares of private property in the State of Mexico (Edoméx) to be used in the ongoing construction of the new General Felipe Ángeles International Airport. The new airport — which is a pet project of the president and which he
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Lomas de Chapultepec mansion that once belonged to Chinese-born imprisoned Mexican citizen Zhenli Ye Gon will be auctioned on Sunday, Aug.11, as programmed, said Ricardo Rodríguez Vargas, president of the Institute to Return to the People What Was Stolen From Them, officially known as Administration and Properties Alienation (SAE). Rodriguez Vargas made the announcement early Wednesday, Aug. 7, during Mexican
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By RICARDO CASTILLO This article is about Mexico’s new (literally from the Spanish) Law of Dominium Extinction or Expired Ownership Domain, approved last July 24 by the Mexican Senate and similar in some ways to the one known as Eminent Domain in the United States. The law is being questioned by a number of deputies such as Tatiana Clouthier (Morena)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Among the top achievements that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) managed to accomplish and pass through Congress during his first 100 days, as noted in the address he delivered on Monday, March 11, at the National Palace in Mexico City are three laws: The Law of Eminent Domain, which gives the federal government the authority
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