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 Mexican Energy Secretary Rocio Nahle announced on Monday March 18 – the 81st anniversary the expropriation and nationalization of the nation’s oil industry – the names of the four international companies that have been invited to post tenders for the construction of the $8 billion Dos Bocas refinery in the southeastern state of Tabasco.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Southwest Airlines will discontinue its Mexico City routes as of March 30, the airlines announced. The Dallas-based economy airlines, which first began offering daily flights between Mexico City and Houston, Texas, in 2014, said that the decision to cut the service was based on the fact that the route had not proven sufficiently profitable.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While gasoline shortages in some parts of Mexico – particularly in Mexico City – caused by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) all-out offensive to stop fuel thefts at any cost – have finally begun to subside as a fleet of guarded tankers begins to meet demand, Guanajuato Governor Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo has
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