By RICARDO CASTILLO The Last of the Sauri-ans The first week of September in Mexican politics was raucous from start to finish. Here is a capsulated roundup of events: It all started on Monday, Aug. 31, with the first vote at the Mexican Chamber of Deputies for the upcoming third and last year of the current legislature. Contending for the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Haphazard School Kickoff The school year in Mexico kicked off on Monday, Aug. 24, with all of the failures expected from a nation not accustomed to remote education. With classes at home, parents from all over the country complained first about the communications system failure as teachers responsible for their groups groped to find alternative education methods.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A War of Leaks Ever since the 63-page script containing the accusations the former director of the state-run oil interest Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Emilio Lozoya Austin, made against a numerous set of former public officials, a small war of leaks has been taking place in Mexican politics. First Lozoya directly accused former Mexican Presidents Felipe Calderón, Enrique
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The People’s Priority The outcome of the private summit between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the country’s 32 governors on Wednesday, Aug. 19, was twofold in focus, covering both taxation and health. held a press conference with the National Governors’ Conference (Conago), hosted by San Luis Potosí Governor José Manuel Carreras, after the four-hour
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By RICARDO CASTILLO First Electoral Blood No sooner had Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) announced that the race for the midterm elections will officially start on Sept. 7, than the first missile was aimed directly at the second political force in the nation, the National Action Party (PAN). A vided allegedly showing Guillermo Gutiérrez Badillo. the private secretary of Querétaro
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XINHUA Mexico has seen a “sustained decline” in the number of infections and deaths caused by the novel coronavirus over the course of the past six weeks, the country’s covid.19 czar, Hugo López-Gatell said Tuesday, Aug. 18. “The trend is clear. Some indicators … show that consistently, in most of the country, the number of daily cases is decreasing and
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO and Governors Powwow Mexico’s 32 governors are giddying up to meet on Wednesday, Aug. 19, with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in San Luis Potosí. Previous to the in-person summit, a group of 10 governors known as the Federalist Alliance video conferenced on Saturday, Aug. 15, to outline a plan of discussion with the president.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO and Calderón Exchange Barbs A tit-for-tat rift between former Mexican President Felipe Calderón and the current one, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has been going on throughout the last week. Accusations galore are flying. AMLO started the verbal spat by saying that during the 2006-2012 Calderón mandate, persons now being accused in the United States of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Brutal Contradictions in 4T Environment and Natural Resources Secretary (Semarnat) Victor Manuel Toledo Manzur in an apparently private gathering called on the public not to idealize Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) Fourth Transformation (4T) ideological program because, he said, there are within it “brutal contradictions” and “it does not exist” when it comes to protecting
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Back to School the Broadcast Way Thirty million Mexican public education students will return to classes on Monday, Aug. 24. The one difference in their education will be that they will stay at home and “attend school” through television broadcasts. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and Public Education Secretary (SEP) Esteban Moctezuma announced the new
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