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AMLO Administration Proposes 4.4 Billion Peso Budget Slash to the INE

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By KELIN DILLON After years of threatening to reduce the efficacy of Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration and National Regeneration Movement (Morena) – acting under López Obrador’s Fourth Transformation (4T) campaign promise – finally attempted to make good on its promise, proposing to slash the INE’s requested budget for 2023 by 4.475

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Aviation Expert Warns Santa Lucia Airport Will Be Inoperable

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Based on what is known so far of the new government-sponsored Felipe Ángeles Airport in Santa Lucía, State of Mexico, it will essentially be inoperable due to its poor design, former Mexican air traffic controller María Larriva Sahd warned Wednesday, Dec. 1. “The resign of the (former military) airport will make for longer routes

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Images Surface of Suspended Texcoco Airport Totally Flooded

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Once again, controversy has arisen over the half-finished Texcoco airport, which was canceled by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) even before he took office in December 2018. On Friday, Oct. 8, Mexican Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development Román Meyer shared an aerial photograph on Twitter of the land where former

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Mexico’s Leaning Tower of Santa Lucía Does Indeed Lean

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite indignant claims to the contrary by verbatim-government-spiel-monger Ana Elizabeth García Vilchis, it turns out that the control tower at Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport does indeed lean. The highly respected trinational architect and structural engineer Axel Belfort confirmed Wednesday, Sept. 22, that the structure has a slope of about 18 centimeters due to alluvial sedimentation

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Air Canada Nixes Felipe Ángeles Airport Use

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS With the reopening of Canada to nonessential travel, Air Canada began restarting flights between Mexico and the Land of the Maple Leaf this week, but said it has no plans to use President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial pet project of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) in Santa Lucia. During an online media conference on Wednesday,

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Is Mexico’s Fourth Transformation its Fourth Militarization?

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS There is no doubt that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has favored the country’s military since taking office, constantly increasing its size, powers, budget and impunity. One of the obvious reasons for AMLO’s affinity for Mexico’s armed forces is the simple fact that a well-pampered military is very unlikely to stage a coup against a

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Mexico News Roundup

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By RICARDO CASTILLO     Dos Bocas Bubble Bursts The news was sensational. Chinese Ambassador to Mexico Zhi Qingqiao told reporters during the celebration of a China Day event organized by Mexico’s Economy Secretariat on Monday, Jan.13, that Chinese banks were investing $600 million in the Dos Bocas Refinery, currently under construction in the southeastern state of Tabasco. Immediately after

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A Tale of Two Airports: NAIM and Santa Lucía

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By RICARDO CASTILLO     In tandem with the announcement on Monday, April 29, of the additional construction of the Santa Lucía military airport — now renamed the Felipe Ángeles Airport — just northwest of the Teotihuacán Pyramids, Communications and Transportation Secretary Javier Jiménez Espriú surreptitiously released to the handpicked newspaper El Universal as well as to journalist Jorge Zepeda, copies of

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