By KELIN DILLON In the midst of controversies surrounding Mexico’s energy sector, U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry visited the country on Wednesday, Feb. 9 to meet with Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to discuss the two nations’ heavily intertwined environmental policies and pursuits. Considering López Obrador’s pending initiative to give
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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 KELIN DILLON After controversy arose following Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) appointment of former National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) professor Pedro Salmerón Sanginés, who has been accused of sexual harassment, as the Mexican ambassador to Panama on Jan. 17, López Obrador has since doubled down on his choice, saying he would wait for “evidence to be
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OPINION By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Like everything else with an uncertain future, predictions for the year ahead are just that: prognoses that could or could not come to pass. That said, and with no crystal ball in hand, here are four broad predictions that most likely could be agreed upon by most in the Western Hemisphere for 2022: emerging
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XINHUA The governments of Mexico and Chile agreed to form a strategic alliance to promote Latin America’s “common voice” on the world stage, the two countries announced Friday, Jan. 7. According to a statement from Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE), once Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric takes office on March 11, the two governments will seek the support of other leftist
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Dec. 22, the U.S. government approved Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos’ (Pemex) $596 million purchase of Shell’s Texas refinery Deer Park, with the acquisition planned to be finalized within the first few weeks of 2022. “The purchase shows a good relationship between the United States and Mexico,” said Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexican politics have been radically redefined in the last decade. The three great political bastions that historically had disputed the leadership and hegemony of the country went from an almost-lifetime splendor and permanence to a general crisis that has very nearly caused their dissolution. One of the oldest parties in modern Mexican history is the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Monday, Nov. 22, that he is ready to “go to battle” with the 11 U.S. arms manufacturers that Mexico is suing for the surge in violent crime. “The real battle begins now,” Ebrard said during a speech at the United Nations Security Council, in response to
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By KELIN DILLON On Thursday, Nov. 18, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Washington, D.C., for the IX Summit of North American Leaders, the first of its kind since 2016 and marking the first time López Obrador and Biden have met together in person since Biden assumed
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Apparently the idea of replanting trees to prevent deforestation is a uniquely Mexican concept, conceived by “Mr. Environment Responsibility” himself, aka, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). At least, that is what AMLO had the audacity to claim during his morning press rant on Wednesday, Nov. 3. Asked by one of the few real journalists
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