By KELIN DILLON Famed Mexican author and historian Enrique Krauze has been awarded the III Spanish Orders History Prize, recognizing his commitment and work surrounding the Hispanic world. Krauze, who has been on the receiving end of public attacks by current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) due to the author’s longtime criticism of presidential power, was proposed for
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ancira Negotiations Imprisoned Mexican steel tycoon Alonso Ancira’s lawyer, José Luis Castañeda, continued negotiations at the Mexico City North Penitentiary late Tuesday, Feb. 9, and finally came up with a figure that his client will have to pay to win his freedom. In an out-of-court negotiation still to be ratified, Mexico’s state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid-19 Vaccine Funds Assured The Mexican government wields, for starters, 20 billion pesos “we have saved because there is no more corruption nor luxuries” to vaccinate every Mexican, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) while on tour in Puebla over the weekend. At the same time, he called upon every Mexican to not be overconfident before
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Over the past week, the ultra-conservative daily Mexican newspaper Reforma has been stabbing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) with a wooden knife. In Mexican journalism, it is deemed that wooden knives do not penetrate deep enough to kill you, but for sure getting “stabbed” with one is a nagging nuisance. Persons who criticize politicians use the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Pick your fighting cock and make your wagers because the birds of combat are about to engage here in Mexico. Actually, the kind of birds of combat I am talking about are engaged. Still, make your pick. The political battle really began over a month ago, when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) disclosed the existence
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The rumblings of a head-on clash between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) press secretary, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, and journalists could be heard loud and clear since the last week of February. Back then, during a conference at the School for Social and Political Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Ramírez Cuevas announced
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Among the myriad of events the Mexican Senate hosts on a practically daily basis, last Wednesday, Feb. 6, one of them did not garner much attention, at first. But as time went by, many eyebrows are beginning to be raised and people are starting to wonder what a bunch Russian politicos were doing in Mexico. The meeting
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