OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The most notable aspect of the recent capture of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, including the many signs of intelligence collaboration with U.S. agencies, is the rapid growth of speculation surrounding current Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) Director and former Secretary of the Interior Manuel Bartlett Díaz and the consequences that the delivery of the
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The democratic political life of Mexico, as in many other Latin American nations, is relatively young. In the last decade, a new chapter began in the construction of Mexican politics after the sudden arrival to the presidency of a newly created party. Breaking through and eventually displacing the parties that historically held political hegemony
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By JESSICA GUERRERO Mexico’s independent life as a republic began in 1821, 200 years ago. But the first hundred years of the country’s autonomy were dizzying and plagued with numerous internal conflicts. These events and circumstances unleashed the Mexican Revolution that broke out in 1910, and consisted of a civil war between several regional revolutionary forces against the authoritarian regime of
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The question that everyone in Mexico should be asking themselves is whether ordinary citizens are more interested in subsidizing, with their own paychecks and a reduced quality in their public services, an ideologized concept of national sovereignty as purported by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his so-called Fourth Transformation (4T), or paying less for
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Four former national heads of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) warned over the weekend that voting for leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform would constitute a step backwards for Mexico and the possible extinction of the party itself. “What should it matter if the PRI is in government or
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed electricity reform would nullify at least 32 existing contracts with private electricity generators, especially those of independent energy producers, which, according to data from Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), are valued at 1.6 trillion pesos. To put that in context, that sum would constitute enough money to
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By KELIN DILLON As widespread political debate over Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed reform to the country’s electricity legislation, which would grant the state-owned electricity company, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), a 54 percent market share compared to 46 percent by the private sector, both AMLO and CFE CEO Manuel Bartlett Díaz have spoken publicly in its
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When more than 4.7 million homes in the north of Mexico were left without light or heating on Monday, Feb. 15, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was quick to resort to his favorite stock scapegoat for the subsequent humanitarian and economic repercussions: Blame it on past administrations. True to form, rather than assuming responsibility for the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Texas Gas Shortage The Arctic vortex that hit Texas and the north of Mexico on Monday, Feb. 15, did not catch the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) unprepared, said the commission’s director, Manuel Bartlett Díaz. The cold spell was expected, and the subsequent gas shortage it produced was also to be expected, he said, but not just for
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO’s New Year Message The prospects for 2021 are looking good in the eyes of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as the nation’s treasury starts the new decade with a 65 billion peso surplus, thanks to stiff collections practices that have “wealthy tax evaders” climbing the walls. To be clear, that does not mean
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