By RICARDO CASTILLO Russian Vaccínea The Mexican Public Health Secretariat on Monday, Jan. 25, published in the Official Gazette the ordinance outlining the purchase of covid-19 vaccines by private citizens, companies and state governments. No doubt, the announcement was rushed to the government’s newspaper spurred on by the announcement that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was buying 24 million
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Joining Forces against Morena The leaders of Mexico’s three largest minority parties met on Tuesday, Nov. 10, with two top entrepreneurs who recently formed a political front called Sí por México (Yes for Mexico) to compete against the ruling National Regeneration Movement in the upcoming 2021 midterm elections. Facebook Marko Cortés of the National Action Party (PAN),
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The leaders of Mexico’s three leading opposition parties — the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) — announced late Tuesday, Nov. 10, that they would join forces behind the Sí por México (Yes, for Mexico) movement in order to back
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By RICARDO CASTILLO This is the brief story of a tempest in a teapot, along with a brief analysis of what the political situation in Mexico is in the times of covid-19, at least for the day. The latest political snafu is a lot of fun, but it was also meaty enough to make for 24 more hours of political
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Opinion leaders in Mexico are calling the new path to private investment led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) “crony capitalism,” claiming that now they will benefit from AMLO’s turn to the right, even if just a little bit. It must be pointed out that during his first year in office, he did not even enjoy
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … The Mexican business community is finally showing an inkling of positivity toward President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO In mid-July, former Mexican Treasury Secretary Carlos Urzúa, upon presenting his resignation to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), launched a frontal attack against AMLO’s Chief of Staff Alfonso Romo Garza in an interview. “It’s most difficult to understand the type of relationship, ideologically speaking, Romo has with the president,” Urzúa said. “He’s an extreme right-winger.” Urzúa
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