By KELIN DILLON Students in the Mexican state of Jalisco have been given the go-ahead to restart in-person education by the state’s government, despite not yet receiving the green light on the Mexican government’s traffic-light covid risk ranking system, something the federal government staunchly insisted states would need to reopen schools, until now. Jalisco, located along Mexico’s western Pacific coast,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Chihuahua Governor Seeks Martyrdom In the past two weeks, National Action Party (PAN) Chihuahua Governor Javier Corral has staged two major publicity stunts: First he led a group of 10 state governors to splinter from the National Governors’ Conference (Conago), and then, Immediately afterwards, he permitted a group of farmers to take the federally managed and National
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By RICARDO CASTILLO War of the Judiciaries Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent a clear message to two top prosecutors, Fiscal General of the Republic Alejandro Gertz Manero and Financial Intelligence Unit of the Treasury Secretariat Santiago Nieto Castillo: Get your act together! A week ago, on Friday, July 10, Gertz Manero told a Mexican daily newspaper that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Pandemic Politicizing Contrary to what is happening in the United States, where the White House is downsizing the extent of covid-19 and the disparaging the image of the country’s coronavirus czar, Anthony Faucet, here in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, July 14, reiterated his support Health Undersecretary and chief epidemiologist Hugo Lopez-Gatell. AMLO’s
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Thus far in Mexico’s Covid-19 pandemic, 13 state governors are criticizing the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Whatever he does, he does wrong in the eyes of these 13 beholders. In return, AMLO and his supporters are claiming that at least 11 of the 13 governors, who should be running their states according to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Frustrated Entrepreneurs Business and politics have intentionally been kept centralized in Mexico City for decades in Mexico. But that arrangement seems to be falling apart as a result of the divide between commerce and industrial chambers leaders, specifically, Carlos Salazar Lomelín of the Business Coordination Council (CCE), Francisco Cervantes of the Industrial Chambers Confederation (Concamin) and Antonio
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Six Mexican governors from the states most direly affected by gasoline shortages — and which, coincidentally, are also from parties other than President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s left-leaning National Regeneration Movement (Morena) – met with Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Octavio Romero Oropeza, Energy Secretary Rocío Nahle García and Public Safety Secretary Alfonso Durazo Montaño on
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