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US Envoy Warns AMLO’s Energy Reform Could Stall Investment
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar — who in February stirred diplomat waters by contradicting the Joe Biden administration when he said that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) “is right” about his country’s energy sector requiring reforms — said Friday, March 18, that the president’s reform will discourage investment in Mexico. Salazar
Read moreTren Maya Suspended Indefinitely Due to Environmental Concerns
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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Global Seismic Activity
Read moreWhat Would AMLO’s Electricity Reform Mean for Mexico?
The Latin America Advisor asks six leading Mexico experts
Read moreUS Climate Envoy Kerry Visits Mexico amid Energy Concerns
By KELIN DILLON In the midst of controversies surrounding Mexico’s energy sector, U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry visited the country on Wednesday, Feb. 9 to meet with Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to discuss the two nations’ heavily intertwined environmental policies and pursuits. Considering López Obrador’s pending initiative to give
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AMLO’s Tren Maya Tourist Train
Read moreLast Orangutan in Chapultepec Zoo Dies
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Toto, the last surviving orangutan in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Zoo, has died, the city’s Environment Secretariat (Sedema) reported late Wednesday, Dec. 8. Toto, a male ape that was donated to Mexico by the Indonesian government, was one month short of reaching age 30. According to zoo sources, he had begun to be listless and
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An Assault on Nature
Read moreAMLO Decrees Megaprojects ‘Matters of National Security’
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what has been deemed by critics as a serious blow to Mexican democracy and political transparency, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) issued a presidential decree late Monday, Nov, 22, declaring all his administration’s mega infrastructure projects as “matters of public interest and national security.” The decree, which was immediately met with opposition
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