By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar reprimanded Mexico’s lower house Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, March 24, for launching a Mexico-Russia Friendship Group one day earlier with Moscow’s envoy Víktor Koronelli in tow. Speaking before the same parliamentarians, Salazar said that in the midst of Russia’s brutal invasion into Ukraine, “this sort of endorsement”
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was announcing that the Joe Biden administration had determined Russia had indeed committed war crimes in Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to Mexico Víktor Koronelli went before Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, March 23, to “congratulate” the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for not
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By KELIN DILLON After his arrest on Dec. 22, the secretary of Mexico’s Senate Political Coordination Board (Jucopo), José Manuel del Río Virgen, broke his silence for the first time since his imprisonment in Pacho Viejo prison in a Monday, Jan. 3, phone call with Senator Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar, declaring his innocence against the allegations that he ordered the murder
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexico’s complex political system has historically stood out from those of other Latin American nations for conforming a multiparty structure composed of a wide variety of political organizations. The favorable conditions promoted by the country’s National Electoral Institute (INE) for the creation of new political parties have been key factors for the evergreen emergence
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Back to the Salt Mines Both houses of the Mexican Congress kicked off activities Monday, Feb. 1, after the Christmas sabbatical with an array of very important issues under discussion for voting as soon as legislators feel the bills are ready. It came as no surprise that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday, Jan.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The verbal brawl between 10 protesting state governors who ganged up against Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) regarding “the fiscal pact” continues as the Senate approved on Wednesday, Nov. 28, the preliminary proposal for the nation’s 2021 federal budget. In Pulse News Mexico, we reported that a group of rebellious governors threatened secession. We did
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By KYLIE MADRY Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has long been disliked by members of the opposition parties, who formed the country’s ruling class until AMLO and his National Regeneration Movement (Morena) took power. That distaste is turning into open revolt, as the president faces threats from the rightwing National Anti-AMLO Front (Frena), the newly formed Sí por
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By RICARDO CASTILLO In 10 separate gatherings of the so-called Federalist Alliance, the governors of as many Mexican states held meetings to demand that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) not drastically cut their income in the 2021 national budget. They also protested against the recent elimination of 109 federally funded trusts that sprinkled money into their states. In tandem,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Cleavage at Conago Ten Mexican governors met Monday, Sept. 7, in the northern city of Chihuahua. The purpose of their gathering was to vote on whether to continue to participate in the National Governors Commission (Conago), an organization that aims to be one voice before the president. The outcome of the meeting was that all10 voted to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The collective memory in Mexico may be short these days, but it was a long haul until Wednesday, July 22, to pick the four new National Electoral Institute (INE) councilors that just took over their posts. Once the Chamber of Deputies approved the four from a choice of 20 pre-candidates, the storm was over and a political calm
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