Nearshoring picked up steam when the covid-19 pandemic exposed the considerable risks inherent in the supply chains for numerous critically important products and intermediate goods for which there was often a single supplier
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A Mexican federal judge on Tuesday, Sept. 14, annulled the arrest warrant and the formal prison order issued against the two women accused of allegedly having caused the death of Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero’s brother through negligence in 2015. Fifth District Appeals Judge Patricia Marcela Diez Cerda in Mexico City ordered the release of Laura Morán
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite a dramatic 74 percent uptick in violent crimes, a 7.3 percent increase in poverty, a contraction of the national economy every year since he took office, and, lest we forget, a dismal mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of nearly 260,000 Mexicans (and that’s just based on the official numbers, outside
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The highly respected British news magazine The Economist compared Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the late slapstick comedian Cantinflas in its Saturday, July 17 edition. “It is a question that might have been devised by Cantinflas, a comic actor who turned the Mexican taste for circumlocution into an absurdist art form,”
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican Labor Party Deputy Mauricio Toledo just can’t seem to dodge the bullets that keep being hurdled at him for alleged illicit enrichment and other criminal charges. Toledo, who took office in 2018 as part of the majority party National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) leftist coalition, is currently being investigated by the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), nearly three years into his six-year term, spoke to the nation in a televised address on Thursday, July 1, marking the third anniversary of his 2018 electoral victory. During the 40-minute address, AMLO showcased what he said were his administration’s most important successes and made predictions for
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Irving Barrios, the chief prosecutor in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, said Tuesday, June 22, that the bloody massacre that left at least 19 people dead in the border town of Reynosa over the weekend was the result of political infighting between rival factions of the Gulf Cartel. Speaking in an interview on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICVO STAFF Claims that Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero is using his position to persecute and steal from the family of his deceased brother continued to mount as his great nephew demanded Tuesday, June 8, that Gertz Manero prove the accusations he has launched against the family. In a second video that soon went viral
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) lost his partisan stranglehold of Congress in the Sunday, June 6, midterm elections, thus limiting his ability to ram through initiatives and rewrite the constitution on a whim, his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party apparently gained territory on the gubernatorial front, winning 11 of 15 slots, according to
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