By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a scathing review of the Mexican president’s first two years in office, the highly acclaimed El Universal daily newspaper this weekend offered a point-by-point breakdown of some of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) most prominent failures, on the eve of his second State of the Nation Address, slated for Tuesday, Dec. 1. AMLO,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Bill on Collision Course The bill to “reform labor outsourcing” sent to the Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) last week is definitely heading toward a collision course in Congress. Mexican Labor Secretary Luisa María Alcalde complied the bill with the helping hand of the heads of the Mexican Treasury (Hacienda),
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By KYLIE MADRY From Federales to Mall Cops More than 8,000 members of the Federal Forces Division and the Gendarmerie Division of the now-dissolved Mexican Federal Police will be reduced to doormen and parking lot attendants, according to an Oct. 17 report in La Crónica newspaper. The divisions built a reputation as specialized military-police forces within the Federal Police, with high-power
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) publicly vowed to resign from office if at least 100,000 people would march against him over the weekend, more than 180,000 Mexicans took to the street on Saturday, Oct. 3, demanding his immediate exit. To verify their numbers, over 130,000 of these protestors officially registered their
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Debt Restructuring Plan The Mexican Treasury and the National Banking and Stocks Commission (CNBV) launched a national debt relief package to help borrowers and banks alike during the covid-19 pandemic-provoked economic crisis. The plan includes a downsizing of the agreed-upon interest rate and reduces the monthly amount borrowers are currently paying. All news arrangement will have to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Now that the National Front to Stop AMLO (FRENA) is on its fifth day of protest with an invasion of Mexico City’s main downtown thoroughfare Juárez Avenue, suddenly the question of “what and who is FRENA?” struck me like a lighting rod. I am no arithmetician, but I know numbers well enough to come up with the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In what constituted the largest anti-AMLO march yet, more than 60,000 Mexicans marched from Mexico’s City Revolution Monument to the National Palace on Sunday, Aug. 30. The march included protesters from 22 Mexican states. The nonviolent march, led by the National Anti-AMLO Front, a nonprofit group that is demanding the immediate removal of Mexican President Andrés Manuel
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Residents across at least 70 cities in 30 Mexican states participated in a mass protest against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Saturday, May 30. Despite the ongoing nationwide covid-19 lockdown, thousands of cars and SUVs in Mexico City and other major Mexican metropolis conducted a daylong protest caravan, demanding the immediate resignation
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