By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Secretary of Economy Tatiana Clouthier has resigned from her post, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on the morning of Thursday, Oct. 6, in his daily press conference. “I regret to inform you that I received a letter from Tatiana, in which she tells me that she wants to resign from her post, but not
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By MARK LORENZANA In the midst of a debate plagued by accusations of vote buying, disqualifications and insults, the plenary session of the Mexican Senate — with the majority vote of senators under Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and their allies, as well as the majority of legislators from the Institutional Revolutionary Party
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) will take full control of immigration and customs tasks at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) “in an effort to combat organized crime,” the director of the AICM, Carlos Velázquez Tiscareño, announced on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 4. In a press conference, Velázquez Tiscareño said that the Immigration Office at
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By MARK LORENZANA Acts of extortion, robbery, abuse of authority and even links to organized crime have allegedly been identified within the ranks of the Mexican National Guard (GN). According to a report from the Internal Affairs Unit (UAI) of the GN, which was obtained by Mexican daily newspaper Reforma, from the beginning of 2019 until April 2022, 8,656 anonymous
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By MARK LORENZANA Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) directly awarded a contract to a private firm to rent out 41,000 computers and other 16,000 pieces of peripheral hardware to Mexico’s state-owned oil company for the next four years. The company, Tec Pluss, distributor of Dell Computers in Mexico, won on Sept. 9 the open contract for up to 2.99 billion pesos, value-added
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By MARK LORENZANA A group of protesters who identified themselves as supporters of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) heckled, jeered and kicked out political analyst, activist and author Denise Dresser from a protest march on Sunday, Oct. 2, at Mexico City’s main square Zócalo. Dresser, who has been a vocal critic of López Obrador, attended the march commemorating
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By MARK LORENZANA In the last two years, 3,622 workers from the health sector of Mexico’s federal government have died of the covid-19 virus. Among these health workers were doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians and administrative staff. A report by Mexican daily newspaper El Universal on Monday, Oct. 3, revealed that from March 12, 2020, to March 12, 2022, 2,746 doctors employed by three government agencies
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By MARK LORENZANA A shootout on the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 2, in one of the most important commercial areas in the municipality of Zapopan in the Mexican state of Jalisco, caused panic among people who were enjoying their time at a shopping center. Local authorities have reported multiple injuries and at least one dead. Video clips of the attack
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican Formula 1 (F1) racer Sergio “Checo” Pérez took first place in a rain-soaked Singaporean Grand Prix, even after receiving a five-second penalty after the race. F1 race stewards launched an investigation hours later for an alleged safety-car violation by Pérez. Checo led most of the way the entire race, which was not only delayed and marred
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By MARK LORENZANA The presidential jet TP-01 José María Morelos y Pavón, which Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has tried to sell or raffle off for four years now, is still unsold. Adding to the problem is that the plane’s maintenance has also been halted, according to a report on Sunday, Oct. 2, by Mexican daily newspaper El
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