By KELIN DILLON As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) fast approaches the close of the third official year of his term, his inconsistencies and penchant for overtly targeting his opponents have begun to become more clear than ever to the public of Mexico. López Obrador has used his platform of publicly broadcast press conferences every morning of the
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The president of Mexico’s conservative National Action Party (PAN), Marko Cortés, was recently faced with the dilemma of having to choose between being the key to the party’s transition in a post-Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Mexico or watching the it surrender its last semblance of political relevancy after having been severely battered in the 2012
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By KELIN DILLON In the first 32 months of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, 21 journalists have been assassinated in Mexico — up 31.2 percent from the comparable figure for the previous administration of former President Enrique Peña Nieto, which experienced 16 homicides in its first 32 months. According to British human rights organization Article 19, which
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The future of Mexico’s centralist National Institutional Party (PRI) will be contingent to a single concept: loyalty. The PRI lost all the governorships in its power in June for two reasons: the depth of its discredit (derived more from its arrogance than from the failure of the governments it led), and the lack of loyalty of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Four days before what it describes as Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “farcical referendum,” the New York-based Americas Quarterly on Thursday, July 28, published a scathing review on the absurdity of the Sunday, Aug. 1, public polling to decide whether to prosecute the country’s former presidents for their alleged misdeeds. In the article, which is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto paid $32 million for the Israeli-developed Pegasus spy program, Santiago Nieto Castillo, the head of Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), reported Wednesday, July 21. Speaking during the morning press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in the National Palace, Nieto Castillo said that this software was
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) is apparently investigating the financial operators of former President Enrique Peña Nieto and his Secretary of the Treasury Luis Videgaray Caso, as well as those of former National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya Cortés, according to a report from the Milenio daily newspaper. Milenio said that those
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s auto parts exports increased by 27.5 percent in the first four months of 2021, compared to the same period in 2020, according to the National Auto Parts Industry Association (INA). The surge — the largest increase since 2010 — was primarily the result of the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The highly respected British news magazine The Economist compared Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the late slapstick comedian Cantinflas in its Saturday, July 17 edition. “It is a question that might have been devised by Cantinflas, a comic actor who turned the Mexican taste for circumlocution into an absurdist art form,”
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s currently-in-power leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena), led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), announced 18 proposed ¿reforms to the country’s constitution on Monday, July 12. The reforms would modify 55 articles of the current iteration of the Mexican Constitution, including parts relating to scholarships, pensions, education and the confiscation of assets. The changes include free
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