By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Critics of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) wasted no time after his 45-minute Informe de Gobierno (State of the Nation Address) on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to attack his annual report as “false,” “misleading” and “delusional.” In the address — the second in the president’s six-year term — AMLO congratulated himself and his leftwing administration for
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO’s Washington Itinerary Here are a few things we know about Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) scheduled visit to the White House on Wednesday, July 8. Previously to his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, the Mexican head of state will visit two monuments: a statue of Benito Juárez and the Abraham Lincoln Monument. Later,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Judge Implicated in Bribery Scandal The recorded phone negotiation made public by Mexico’s Fiscal General of the Republic was stunning. It was of the alleged negotiation between Francelia Salgado, mother of accused drugpin José Angles “El Mochomo” Covarrubias, and Assistant Judge Marco Aurelio González, who works directly under Judge María del Socorro Castillo Sánchez, head of the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO Headed to Washington There is no doubt that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will make his first international outing to Washington D.C. He announced this week that it was a done deal. The remaining problem is exactly when the trip will take place. AMLO has repeatedly stated he will do it in the first
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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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By RICARDO CASTILLO Unemployment: Mexico’s New Nightmare Over 555,000 Mexican workers lost their jobs in April alone. Those who lost jobs in May are not yet counted in a report issued on Tuesday, May 12, by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS). The bulk of the lost jobs, according to the IMSS, was in manufacturing, including high-employment maquiladoras, auto industries and
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … The leftist parties in Mexico have followed a complicated and convoluted path to political power,..
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There’s an old Mexican adage that says that it is cheaper to make a poor deal than to fight a great fight. This might seem to be exactly what happened in the negotiations headed by Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) Director Manuel Bartlett Díaz and seven gas pipeline companies that signed contracts for gas ducts with the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s state-owned energy companies Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) continue to be leading problems for the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Both are separate entities that must be dealt with separately. So we’ll start with a look at Pemex, and then consider th CFE a few paragraphs down. Pemex and
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The tip of the iceberg appeared last April in the form of three outages in the Yucatan Peninsula, each affecting approximately 1.6 million electricity users. Back then, the Mexican state-owned company Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) blamed the blackouts on rural cane field fires and line failures. The rest of the iceberg emerged last month, and the truth
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