AMLO Names Former Labor Secretary as New Head of Interior
Alcalde Luján is a lawyer and has already served as a legislator
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Mexican Minimum Wage to Increase by 20 Percent in 2023
PULSE NEWS MEXICO The minimum wage in Mexico — the lowest within the three-member United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) region — will increase by 20 percent in the coming year, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Thursday, Dec. 1. The announcement constituted the fifth increase in Mexico’s minimum wage since López Obrador took office four years ago. During the morning
Read moreUse of Face Masks Now Optional on Planes, Mexico’s Airports
By MARK LORENZANA Shortly after Mexican health authorities eliminated the mandatory use of face masks in closed spaces, Mexico’s Federal Civil Aviation Agency (AFAC), in an official statement on Tuesday, Oct. 11, said that it is now optional for passengers to mask up inside the country’s airports and on flights departing Mexico. “As of this date (Tuesday) and as long
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A Shot of Nothing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) seems to be more obsessed over the incident in which one elderly woman in the northwestern state of Sonora was given an “empty” covid-19 vaccine injection last month than he claims the media is. The alleged mistake occurred when an apparently overworked nursing student accidently jabbed a
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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
Read moreOutsourcing Bill Debate Postponed until February
By RICARDO CASTILLO Negotiations on the controversial personnel outsourcing legislation bill proposed to the Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Nov. 12 have been postponed until February 2021, the president announced on Wednesday, Dec. 9. During an early meeting at the National Palace with business leaders and labor representatives, AMLO said that the details
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Businesses Hit the Outsourcing Panic Button The start of an Open Parliament to discuss Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed reform of outsourcing practices forced the leading business organization representatives to call for an emergency meeting with him that very same day. The president received the businessmen at the National Palace. Given the positioning of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Bill on Collision Course The bill to “reform labor outsourcing” sent to the Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) last week is definitely heading toward a collision course in Congress. Mexican Labor Secretary Luisa María Alcalde complied the bill with the helping hand of the heads of the Mexican Treasury (Hacienda),
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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
Read moreTargeted Women in AMLO’s Cabinet
By RICARDO CASTILLO One thing that sets Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) apart from his predecessors is the high number of women in his cabinet. Out of the bunch, three are being singled out by columnists who are flying out trial balloons depicting them under a group name, las halconas, or female hawks or falcons. Truth be told,
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