By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Tragic Saga of Victoria She came to Mexico as a refugee in 2018, with the hopes of eventually making her way to the United States and getting political asylum there. But for 36-year-old Salvadorian Victoria Esperanza Salazar Arriaza, the journey north would come to an abrupt end at the hands of the Mexican police, who, after
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By KELIN DILLON The controversial new changes to Mexico’s electricity law will now see the nation’s Secretariat of Energy (Sener) and Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) review more than 20,000 permits granted to private individuals and enterprises in the energy sector under previous presidential administrations. The review will look into permits to operate and open service stations outside of the Petróleos
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS From Fuel Thief to Candidate The former head of Mexico’s left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in the northern state of Tamaulipas, Miguel Ángel Almaraz Maldonado, who was arrested in 2009 by the Federal Attorney General’s Office for allegedly working with the Zetas organized crime group to steal oil from the state-run oil giant Petróleos Mexicanos
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By RICARDO CASTILLO An Irate Response After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) asked Supreme Court Chief Justice Arturo Zaldivar to order an investigation into Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro (who indefinitely suspended the president’s controversial new electricity bill), Zaldivar complied and requested the officer in charge of the Council of the Judiciary, Carlos Alpízar, to pay a visit
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Crucifixion
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial reform to The country’s electric industry received further roadblocks to its implementation following a second judge’s additional suspensions to the law on Wednesday, March 17, much to the chagrin of López Obrador. Judge Rodrigo de la Peza López Figueroa ruled in favor of 11 amparos (a legal term in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Erstwhile Aztec and Spaniards Meet in Court A major political war between the modern conquest version of the Aztec versus the Spaniards is now being wagered in Mexico between conservative and liberal forces. The conflict was sparked by the controversial ruling made by Second District Court for the Administration, Economic Competency and Broadcast Services for Mexico City
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By RICARDO CASTILLO New Mexican Tourist Resort Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Saturday visited the largest of the three islands, popularly known as “Las Marías,” off the coast of Nayarit in the Pacific Ocean. During his visit, AMLO announced that in three months the archipelago, which once served as a federal prison, would open up to tourists as
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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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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once famously quipped, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” The point that Disraeli was trying to make is that the selective use of numbers can bolster any argument and disguise any truths to accommodate a political agenda. Nowhere is that persuasive power of carefully culled figures more
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