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AMLO’s First 100 Days as Team Mexico Manager
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador(AMLO) is currently preparing his report on his first 100 days in office. The precise day will be Sunday, March 10, but he’s already announced that he will instead blow his own horn on Monday, March 11, during his daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City. Last Wednesday,March
Read moreConsumers Pay Price for Mexican Fuel Theft Crackdown
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Gasoline theft might have dropped significantly as a result of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) ambitious crackdown on huachicoleo (fuel piracy), but its consumers who are paying the price at the pumps. According to government’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE), between the second and third weeks of February, the average price nationwide of
Read moreGasoline Theft Down by 86 Percent in Two Months
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Two months after the start of his nationwide program to curb fuel theft, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Thursday, Feb. 21, that the amount of stolen gasoline has dropped from 56,000 barrels a day to just 8,000 a day. “We experienced some difficult moments and about a week of fuel
Read moreThree Real Emergencies the US Must Address on its Southern Border
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE (The following article first appeared in the U.S. political website “The Hill” and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) The negotiations in Washington over security at the U.S. southern border should focus on three of the real emergencies that are causing widespread human suffering and exacting high costs in both the United States and Mexico: illegal drug trafficking
Read moreUSMCA: The Path to Passage
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Read moreAnxiety Over AMLO’s Disdain for Personal Security Mounts
By RICARDO CASTILLO There’s a growing concern among most Mexicans over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) disdain for personal security. Friends and political opponents agree that the lax security that has surrounded him for the little over two months he’s been in office has to be reinforced. The president’s problem is that he considers himself to be just one more
Read morePemex Union Boss Defiant Despite Pending Indictment
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Carlos Romero Deschamps, head of the powerful Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) workers group, the Mexican Oil Workers Union (STPRM), said Wednesday, Jan. 31, that he is not concerned about the alleged charges against him. Earlier in the day, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Romero Deschamps will soon be charged with alleged fuel
Read moreAMLO Receives Death Threat from Huachicoleros
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A cloth banner painted with threats to the life of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was found just outside the Salamanca refinery in the central state of Guanajuato, presidential spokesperson Jesús Ramírez Cuevas said on Thursday, Jan. 31. The banner, which was found by local police, was allegedly signed by the assumed
Read moreTlahuelilpan Death Toll Reaches 115
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As of Monday, Jan. 28, the death toll as a result of the Jan. 18 in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, had reached 115, with 32 victims still hospitalized, according to the Mexican Health Secretariat. The explosion occurred at an illegal tap of the Tuxpan-Tula gasoline pipeline, just 100 kilometers northeast of Mexico City, during a gasoline
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