Mexicans Are Hoping for a President Who Will Fight Crime
Organized crime groups in Mexico now have about 175,000 members – making them the fifth-biggest employer in the country
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AMLO’s Second Nationalization Is a Costly Hoax
with the transfers of more financial resources to the CFE to cover its new deficit, the people of Mexico will bear the cost in higher electricity bills
Read moreAMLO Buys Iberdrola Plants, May Have Gotten Burned in Deal
After four years of verbally barraging the Spanish-owned Iberdrola energy company, the AMLO administration would now be purchasing the bulk of that company’s Mexican power-generating plants for the sum of $6 billion
Read moreWhen the Court Was Servile
Although over time the Supreme Court had been less subservient to the executive than Congress, it genuflected several times between 1970 and 1994
Read moreQueen Elizabeth’s Memorialized Visits to Mexico
By ALLAN WALL The death of Queen Elizabeth II, England’s longest reigning monarch, at age 96 on Thursday, Sept. 8, marked the end of an era for both the people of the United Kingdom and the entire global community. Nowhere was her influence more felt and will her legacy be more remembered than in her beloved homeland and Commonwealth. But
Read moreMichoacán’s Pueblos Unidos: Empowered Farmers or Vigilante Terrorists?
By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — During the last two weeks, the country has faced a serious security crisis, after several violent incidents took place across cities located in the states of Baja California, Chihuahua and Guanajuato, where different organized crime groups directly attacked civilians and set fires to dozens of businesses and private vehicles. The aforementioned resulted, in the first
Read moreAnti-Semitism Raises Its Ugly Head in Mexico, Again
OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Even though this is something that happened a few weeks ago, it is an issue that I don’t want to let go by unmentioned: Anti-Semitism has reappeared in Mexico’s public life, instigated by the powers that be. And the subject deserves a cautionary reflection. “The day there is not a single Jew left in the world,
Read moreDelays in Michoacán Teachers’ Salaries Generate Millions in Losses
By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A few days into the recently initiated school year in Mexico, teachers ascribed to Section 18 of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) union in the central western state of Michoacan are alleging serious irregularities and debts in their members’ salary payments over the last month. According to the union group, the administration
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Roberta’s Back In May 2018, then-outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson made a prediction, saying that she was not saying goodbye but rather “so long.” On Tuesday, March 23, Jacobson kept her promise and returned to Mexico, this time as U.S. President Joe Biden’s southern border affairs representative. Jacobson led a committee of U.S. officials in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Vote Postponed The Mexican Chamber of Deputies postponed the vote on the outsourcing regulation bill, which was slated to take place on Thursday, Nov. 26. Now, the debate over it will continue until sometime next week. The decision came after there was an exponential increase of speakers taking the podium from 70, on Monday, Nov. 23,
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