Financial Times Highlights Violent Cartel Expansion Under AMLO
“The cartels control more territory than ever before, about a third of the country, according to an estimate by the U.S. military,” read the report
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Thousands March Across Mexico Against AMLO’s Proposed Reforms
More than 700,000 people attended Sunday’s march in the capital according to the protest’s organizers, though the Mexico City police claimed only 30,000 were in attendance
Read moreFinancial Times Calls on AMLO to ‘Learn from his Mistakes’
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF London’s esteemed Financial Times (FT) newspaper on Sunday, March 6, called on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to “learn from his mistakes” and “to rethink his policies” that are dragging the country back to the 1960s. “López Obrador was famous for defying political gravity,” the world’s leading business publication said in an
Read morePress Unleashes Wrath against AMLO
By RICARDO CASTILLO There are two burning journalistic issues in Mexico that best portray not the real shape of things, but how feverish minds are trying their best to undermine the democratically and legally elected presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Here are samples of two articles, one written by syndicated columnist Salvador García Soto and the published in
Read moreWill Herrera Fit the Mold of AMLO’s Expectations?
By RICARDO CASTILLO Definitely the outstanding image in Mexico for the week July 8-12 was the stone-cold face of Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appointed him the government’s new finance secretary. Herrera Gutiérrez looked as if he was attending his own funeral. The fact is that a lot of political pundits noticed the grave gesture, that
Read moreTwo Mouths, Multiple Opinions
By RICARDO CASTILLO For a “misunderstanding,” the initiation of the construction of the Dos Bocas port refinery was surely a noisy one. But then, it only helps to deepen the polarization of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his multiple detractors, mainly international rating companies concerned about the state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos’ (Pemex) huge debt of $95.6
Read moreAMLO Says Dos Bocas Refinery Still on Track
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that one day earlier his government’s Finance Undersecretary Arturo Herrera told the Financial Times in London that construction of the Dos Bocas refinery in the southeastern state of Tabasco had been put on hold, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, March 13, said that the project would proceed
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