By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to dole out high-ranking (and high-paying) government jobs to luggage porters and entourage traffic managers with little or no academic or professional qualifications (other than their undying loyalty to him), on Monday, June 22, he ousted one of his “most-uncompromising” (his words) proselytes from her office as head
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced his pursuit of three significant changes to the Mexican Constitution on Tuesday, June 15, focusing on reforms to the document’s electrical, electoral and military sections. López Obrador proposed constitutional electrical reform seeks to strengthen the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) so that standard users will not pay higher rates
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Over the course of the last six years, U.S. and Canadian companies have invested more than $4.805 billion in Mexico’s energy sector, capital that is now being threatened by the changes to the electricity and hydrocarbon sectors laws promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Among the major companies that have invested in
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since he first took office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been pushing to consolidating his institutional power by dismantling independent institutions, mandating constitutional rewrites and discrediting his opponents through unsubstantiated charges of criminal activity. One of the most notable victims of this latter political tactic has been the current governor
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By KELIN DILLON Global investment bank Goldman Sachs launched an international lawsuit against Mexico’s state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) for its apparent debt, to the sum of $400 million. The CFE allegedly defaulted on payments for a natural gas purchase during last February’s gas pipeline freeze, which affected Texas and Northern Mexico, resulting in the suit. “The Federal Electricity Commission
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s government has announced its intention to revoke permits from Ienova-TC Energy for the operation of the South Texas-Tuxpan gas pipeline, one of the most important pipelines in the nation, that stretches across 689 kilometers of the country’s federal maritime zone. “It is not feasible to continue granting said authorization, until (Ienova) proves due compliance with the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Vaccine Chaos The covid-19 vaccine rollout in Mexico, which began in December of last year, has been chaotic, to say the least, with allegations of empty syringes, vaccine hoarding, preferential administration for government workers and political maneuvering. Currently, the government is dishing up a hodgepodge of both one-dose and two-dose vaccines (some internationally verified, some not) from
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS INE Tells AMLO to Respect Democratic Process Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his bosom buddy Félix Salgado Macedonio just don’t know how to take “no” for an answer. After Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) banned Salgado Macedonio from running for governor of the Pacific state of Guerrero as AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena)
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No Vaccines for Doctors Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is busy bragging about his administration’s rollout of its mishmash covid vaccines, claiming that it is on course to inoculate all the nation’s elderly population by the end of April (which it is not; there are numerous cases of eligible Mexicans who registered on the government’s online
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Thugs in Uniforms Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) ever-expanding army of National Guard (GN) troops has been flexing its muscles in a violent show of force against civilians, proving once again that unbridled military power is a threat to the nation and the Mexican people alike. In just the last month alone, members of AMLO’s
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