By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) launched his media wall of shame on Wednesday, June 30, and, not surprisingly, the list of alleged “fake news” purveyors included most of his favorite punching bags: Reforma, El Universal and El Financiero. all media ranked among the most credible in the country. The parade of “despicable” media reports for
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), widely touted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as his solution to lower energy prices for the average Mexican, has in fact reportedly increased its costs by 20 percent from January to April of this year. The CFE’s use of expensive, nonrenewable fuels is apparently driving its prices up, as
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In school, a strong B across the board is considered to be a respectable grade. In the world of financial credit ratings, not so much. Although the way that each of the Big Three rating agencies — Standard and Poor´s (S&P), Moody’s Analytics and Fitch Ratings, which collectively account for 99 percent of the world’s ratings market
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Friday, June 11, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) used his morning press conference to yet again badger his opponents, this time lashing out against the country’s middle classes for daring to vote against him and his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party. Finally admitting that he was not all that “feliz, feliz, feliz” (“happy,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Three months after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) handed over the administration of the Reynosa and Matamoros customs to the military, corruption has worsened with the complicity of the National Guard (GN), key private-sector representatives in Tamaulipas said Friday, June 11. “The military turned out to be a bad or worse than
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In yet another scathing international media report on Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) autocratic policies, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an editorial on Tuesday, June 8, calling Mexico’s June 6 midterm elections “a vote for democracy against the president’s radical ambitions.” In the front-page editorial, titled “Mexico Checks AMLO’s Power” and credited to the WSJ editorial
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite extensive campaigns across Mexico’s capital aimed at gaining and maintaining control over its 32 precincts in the midterm elections on Sunday, June 6, preliminary vote counts indicate that the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) lost territory as a result of the polling. Morena, founded by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as a platform to promote
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Former Mexican Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) Consultant Mauricio Merino Huerta said Saturday, June 5, that while there may be some minor changes in Mexico’s political landscape following Sunday’s midterm elections, there will be no major changes. “There are not going to be any big surprises coming out of the vote count,” Merino Huerta told Pulse News Mexico
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