By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS There is no doubt that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) likes to hear the sound of his own voice. Some of his daily monologue-press conferences (which are already programmed to run for two hours straight) have been known to drag on for up to four and a half hours. And once López Obrador gets going
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s government has announced its intention to revoke permits from Ienova-TC Energy for the operation of the South Texas-Tuxpan gas pipeline, one of the most important pipelines in the nation, that stretches across 689 kilometers of the country’s federal maritime zone. “It is not feasible to continue granting said authorization, until (Ienova) proves due compliance with the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Vaccine Chaos The covid-19 vaccine rollout in Mexico, which began in December of last year, has been chaotic, to say the least, with allegations of empty syringes, vaccine hoarding, preferential administration for government workers and political maneuvering. Currently, the government is dishing up a hodgepodge of both one-dose and two-dose vaccines (some internationally verified, some not) from
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS INE Tells AMLO to Respect Democratic Process Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his bosom buddy Félix Salgado Macedonio just don’t know how to take “no” for an answer. After Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) banned Salgado Macedonio from running for governor of the Pacific state of Guerrero as AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena)
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No Vaccines for Doctors Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is busy bragging about his administration’s rollout of its mishmash covid vaccines, claiming that it is on course to inoculate all the nation’s elderly population by the end of April (which it is not; there are numerous cases of eligible Mexicans who registered on the government’s online
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) introduced a reform to Mexico’s hydrocarbon law on March 26 that would force energy companies to comply with a minimum storage company and give the government power to revoke permits given to private companies, which would controversially expropriate all fuel-related matters from the private sector to the federal government. The
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Thugs in Uniforms Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) ever-expanding army of National Guard (GN) troops has been flexing its muscles in a violent show of force against civilians, proving once again that unbridled military power is a threat to the nation and the Mexican people alike. In just the last month alone, members of AMLO’s
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A Shot of Nothing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) seems to be more obsessed over the incident in which one elderly woman in the northwestern state of Sonora was given an “empty” covid-19 vaccine injection last month than he claims the media is. The alleged mistake occurred when an apparently overworked nursing student accidently jabbed a
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Salgado Macedonia Keeps Going and Going and Going It seems that wannabe Guerrero governor Félix Salgado Macedonio just can’t take “no” for an answer. Despite the fact that both the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Guerrero Electoral Institute approved the cancelation of his candidacy for Mexico’s June 6 elections on grounds that he did not fully report
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AMLO’s Answer to the Ruling against his New Electricity Law
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