By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s Tren Maya project continues to approach its scheduled Dec. 23, 2023, completion date, the venture – a favorite of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) – has been plagued by mass resignations from officials in the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarant) and the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur), potentially
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that yet another federal judge on Monday, May 2, ordered the stoppage of all construction on Section 5 of the Mexican president’s controversial Tren Maya railway project because of its endangerment of the fragile cenote underwater riverways in that region, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, May 3, said that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Jalisco Skids Deeper in Debt As pressure grows on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) “to make use” of credits available from international funding organizations, the president becomes more adamant and intrinsic about pushing the nation into further debt. Much of that pressure is coming from opposition state governors, who convened last week in Parras, Coahuila,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A Divided Women’s Movement On the eve of Mexico’s March 9 feminist work stoppage by all the women who want to participate, the cadre of invisible “collectives” have been joined by an apparent “fifth column,” the anti-abortionists, who now claim that this movement “underrates” women. (In military terminology, a fifth column is an infiltration of enemy troops
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