By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICIO STAFF A federal court on Monday, March 8, ordered the suspension of the environmental construction permit for the first three segments of one of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) pet vanity megaprojects, the Tren Maya tourist train, which would cut across the Yucatan Peninsula. The federal court suspended all construction of the 1.500-kilometer
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government is currently considering lifting endangered-species protection for the totoaba fish, which will almost certainly negatively impact the country’s indigenous vaquita porpoise, one of the world’s most endangered mammals. With only about 10 of the critically endangered marine porpoises, which are endemic to Mexico’s Sea of Córtez in the Upper Gulf of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ominous Holiday Warning After expert epidemiologists forecast an ominous surge of covid-19 infections for January, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) issued a public call on Friday, Dec. 4, for people to avoid attending traditional holiday “posadas” gatherings, which usually begin in mid-December and run through Christmas Eve, and to stay home as much as possible
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Brutal Contradictions in 4T Environment and Natural Resources Secretary (Semarnat) Victor Manuel Toledo Manzur in an apparently private gathering called on the public not to idealize Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) Fourth Transformation (4T) ideological program because, he said, there are within it “brutal contradictions” and “it does not exist” when it comes to protecting
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XINHUA Mexico’s government may turn to developing its significant lithium deposits, but only after its oil industry is back on its feet, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Friday, Dec. 13. That decision is mainly due to budget constraints that require the government to focus on recovering oil output before investing in other areas, AMLO told reporters at his
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Every now and then, more often than not, the name of Mexico’s fourth-wealthiest man, Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco, dominates the media with controversial reports. In fact, at the Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat (Semarnat), there are a myriad of files open charging Larrea with crimes of pollution. And if we gauge the amount of media space devoted
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The 10-page-long resignation letter Senator Germán Martínez Cázares sent to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, May 21, resigning from the directorate post of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) marked a turn of political chess castling even before the president has been in office for six months. Immediately after Martínez Cázares’
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Who’s to blame for the terrible levels of air contamination in Mexico City right now (the worst levels of small-particle pollution in over five years)? You guessed it: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his bumbling band of inept advisers and cabinet members. Yes, high temperatures, stagnant air and a lack of any relief in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Monday, Feb. 18, that the group of islands off the country’s Pacific coast known as the Islas Marías, which, in the 1940s were transformed from a high-security federal penitentiary into a low-security prison for nonviolent offenders with a minimum two-year sentence, will soon become a cultural center and nature reserve
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