By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Constitution Day Though officially sessions for both houses of the Mexican Congress kicked off on Saturday, Feb. 1, the first gathering to discuss legal issues will be on Mexico’s Constitution Day, Feb. 5. By now, 14 months after he was sworn in, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has most of his campaign legislative agenda laid
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By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S. Senate Approves USMCA While all the hoopla right now in the U.S. Senate is about President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is celebrating the approval of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). “This brings to an end an important stage because (the treaty) has been now approved by the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico at Odds with Bolivia Diplomatic relations between Bolivia and Mexico are heading toward higher tensions as La Paz demands that Mexico deliver four out of nine people who have sought and been granted asylum in the Mexican Embassy in Bolivia. Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announces in early morning of Thursday, Dec. 26, that he would
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Lest we forget: One of the unkept promises that helped to topple the popularity of former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto was his much-repeated outright lie that with his Energy Reform and Pemex joining free-market competition, “fuel prices will come down.” On Jan. 1, 2017, Peña Nieto made the grave error of liberating gasoline and diesel prices.
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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
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Commercial activities in Mexico City are slowly beginning to come to a standstill as literally hundreds of drivers have begun to sleep in their cars awaiting gasoline – some so long that they have run out of gas completely and now cannot move the vehicles at all – and sales at el Centro de
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The good news is that by moving the Mexican Army to take over Pemex oil refineries, refined fuels theft stopped almost overnight. The bad news is that, nowadays, the residents of the Guanajuato, Querétaro, Michoacán, Jalisco and State of Mexico (Edoméx) can´t get a liter of green or red gas for their vehicles. Theft stopped, but the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) won widespread support in December when he promised to keep the price of gasoline on par with inflation, many Mexicans are now discovering that affordable gas prices do them little good if there is no gas to be bought. During the last week of December and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just days before he is due to step down after a six-year term as president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto raised the price of gasoline on Friday, Nov. 23. Peña Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ran the country essentially uncontested for more than seven decades until the year 2000, lost overwhelmingly in Mexico’s July 1 elections to
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