OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO These days, the political gossip churners in Mexico have a new favorite target: Federal Deputy Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, alias “Alito” (short for Alejandro), who is the both the current president of the once-mighty Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, which ruled the country without interruptions from 1929 to 2000), and the leader of the remaining 70 PRI deputies in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With the government’s new Dos Bocas oil refinery slated to open in July and the expanded operations of the Paraíso refinery in Tabasco, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Tuesday, April 12, that Mexico will be self-sufficient in gasoline, diesel and turbine fuel production by the year 2023. Speaking during his quarterly State
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The fact that members of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party have no qualms about bending — and even breaking — the law in order to achieve their goals is nothing new. We already saw this evidenced in how blatantly the party violated electoral laws in order to promote
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The leftist government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced this week that it will now restrict fuel imports to state-run agencies, thus dealing yet another blow to private-sector energy companies. On June 11, the Mexico’s Tax Administration Service (SAT) published a change to its foreign trade rules forbidding private parties from
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A federal judge in Mexico on Thursday, March 11, less than 24 hours after it went into effect, suspended implementation of the nation’s newly minted electricity reform, which was rammed through Congress late last month by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). The Second District Court for the Administration, Economic Competency and Broadcast Services
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