AMLO Bids Farewell to Presidency
AMLO officially handed over the presidency to his successor Claudia Sheinbaum seconds before midnight on Monday night
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AMLO’s Noncontroversial Megaproject
Ever since the first cross-country railroad from Tapachula on the Guatemalan border to the Juárez at the U.S, border, developing the isthmus into a Panama-type of interoceanic link has been in the plans of numerous Mexican governments
Read moreWhen the Court Was Servile
Although over time the Supreme Court had been less subservient to the executive than Congress, it genuflected several times between 1970 and 1994
Read moreWho Is Really to Blame for the Metro Crash?
Politicians are typically remembered for the decisions they make or the situations they face, successfully or otherwise, in the final stretches of their terms
Read moreMexican Military Front and Center at Independence Day Celebrations
By MARK LORENZANA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on the night of Thursday, Sept. 15, led the reenactment of Mexico’s Cry of Dolores, which marked the 212th year of Mexican independence — and the first time in two years that the event was staged at the Zócalo main plaza in downtown Mexico City due to the covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreMexican Treasury Goes after More Former Presidents
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Just two days after it was revealed that the Mexican Treasury Secretariat’s (Hacienda) Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) was investigating the financial dealings of previous President Enrique Peña Nieto on possible charges of embezzlement and/or money laundering, it was reported Saturday, July 9, that the FIU is also conducting a financial investigation into other former presidents, including Ernesto
Read moreAMLO to Go after US Mining Company for Exporting Gravel
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, May 2, said that he will bring legal action against the Mexican-Alabama joint venture mining corporation Calica Legacy Vulcán for extracting gravel for export, rather than for local consumption. During his daily morning presser, López Obrador said that, from a flyover of Calica-Legacy Vulcan he
Read moreMexico’s Capricious but Enduring ‘Green’ Party
By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — More than three decades since its foundation by politician Jorge González Torres, the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) has managed to ride the partisan crest of Mexican politics, fluctuating like a chess piece between the different political currents in the country. But despite being one of the longest-standing parties in Mexico’s modern democratic
Read moreDenise Dresser Calls AMLO’s Referendum ‘a Sad Simulacrum’
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
Read moreMexico to Hold Referendum on Prosecuting Former Presidents
By KELIN DILLON A referendum held by popular vote will take place in Mexico on Aug. 1, said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), with the public deciding on whether or not the country should prosecute its former heads of state for alleged criminal activity. “I take this opportunity to invite people to participate in this referendum,” said AMLO
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