By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 1, the New York City Bar Association released a statement accusing the actions of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) continued public threats against Mexican judges who rule against him as violating international law and the legal standards for judicial independence as outlined by the Mexican Constitution, the American Convention on Human Rights
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, July 19, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) used his daily morning press conference to attack the Mexican judges who granted suspensions against the executive’s favored policies and pet megaprojects, falling in line with López Obrador’s preferred strategy of publicly admonishing dissenters of his administration. AMLO took the opportunity to speak out against Specialized
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, July 18, Mexican Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro ruled in favor of suspending the Mexican Secretariat of Energy’s policy requiring users of the Integrated National Transportation and Storage System of Natural Gas (Sistrangas) to certify the reception of their supply with one of the State Productive Companies or its affiliates. The policy essentially forced new
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By KELIN DILLON Two federal judges froze the monopoly granted to Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) by reforms from the current government, led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), reverting Pemex back to the same levels of competition with the private sector as standard in 2014. AMLO’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) introduced its final reforms to the Hydrocarbons
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro, who previously laid blows to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) energy and telecommunications reforms, ruled to suspend López Obrador’s controversial hydrocarbon law reform with general effects, the first such legal roadblock against the law. Gómez Fierro moved for the suspension to apply generally, since if it only affected the petitioners
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By KELIN DILLON Tuesday, April 24, was a difficult day for Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his so-called Fourth Transformation, when a multitude of setbacks came crashing down on his plans for Mexico’s future, leaving López Obrador in a fury and his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party in a tailspin. First and foremost, controversial Morena hopefuls
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By KELIN DILLON Former associate Justice of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) José Ramón Cossío made known his concerns about the extent of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) knowledge of the law on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 16, following López Obrador’s public reading of a letter addressed to President of the SCJN and of the Federal
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Erstwhile Aztec and Spaniards Meet in Court A major political war between the modern conquest version of the Aztec versus the Spaniards is now being wagered in Mexico between conservative and liberal forces. The conflict was sparked by the controversial ruling made by Second District Court for the Administration, Economic Competency and Broadcast Services for Mexico City
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), incensed by District Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro’s suspension of his controversial reform to Mexico’s electricity sector the previous day, launched a public tirade against anyone and everyone he deemed his enemies, ranging from foreign countries to his own presidential predecessors, during his daily press conference on the morning of
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By KELIN DILLON Following the decision of Mexican District Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro to suspend Mexico’s controversial electricity reform on Thursday, March 11, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced he would order an investigation into Gómez Fierro’s suspension of the electric law, accusing the judge of working for private companies and showing, once again, that anyone who does
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