OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has an abundant stock of scapegoats to blame for all his multiple failures, be it the spiraling economic crisis (which he blames on the neoliberal conservatives, who haven’t been in power for over three years now), the lack of medications for children with cancer and others in desperate need
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XINHUA A migrant caravan traveling by foot through southern Mexico toward the U.S. border on Thursday, Nov. 4, overwhelmed a Mexican National Guard blockade trying to contain its advance and resumed its march toward Mexico City. The migrants and guard members clashed on the highway linking the towns of Pijijiapan and Tonala in the state of Chiapas, leaving at least
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A caravan of an estimated 4,000 Haitian, Central American and South American migrants pushed past Mexican National Guard (GN) troops in the southern border city of Tapachula on Saturday, Oct. 23, heading for Mexico City. Some of the caravan organizers said that in the Mexican capital, they intended to demand the right of free
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A full 42 percent of the nation’s armed forces personnel has been recommissioned by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to conduct non-military jobs, according to a National Security Report presented to the president on Tuesday, Oct. 20. During AMLO’s daily press conference on Tuesday, Mexican National Guard Commander Luis Rodríguez reported that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, Sept. 27, charged the National Guard (GN) with yet another responsibility, the creation of a special body dedicated to recovering stolen historical and archaeological pieces. During the inauguration of a dual exhibition “The Grandeur of Mexico” at the National Museum of Anthropology and the Secretariat
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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 ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER It’s a well-known fact of life: What starts out badly inevitably ends up worse. In the case of Mexico’s now-globally spotlighted Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE), it all began on Saturday, Aug. 7, with the abrupt and unjustified dismissal of renowned author and historian Jorge F. Hernández from his post as the cultural attaché of Mexico’s embassy
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s auto parts exports increased by 27.5 percent in the first four months of 2021, compared to the same period in 2020, according to the National Auto Parts Industry Association (INA). The surge — the largest increase since 2010 — was primarily the result of the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to deny that the Mexican government is spying on journalists and opposition leaders, a report published on Sunday, July 18, in the Washington Post would seem to contract his claims. The article — written by Dana Priest, Craig Timberg and Souad Mekhennet in cooperation with 16
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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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