By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With the government’s new Dos Bocas oil refinery slated to open in July and the expanded operations of the Paraíso refinery in Tabasco, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Tuesday, April 12, that Mexico will be self-sufficient in gasoline, diesel and turbine fuel production by the year 2023. Speaking during his quarterly State
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a political win for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) on Thursday, April 7, declared that his controversial electricity reform, which prioritizes state-run carbon-based energy sources over clean alternatives, does not violate the country’s Constitution. With four out of 11 votes, the SCJN rejected a declaration of unconstitutionality of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Four members of the U.S. Senate, led by Bob Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, April 6,stating that there is mounting evidence that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is attacking the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF For those who have not been following the upcoming Revocation of Mandate Referendum — one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) key initiatives, allegedly intended to allow the Mexican people to vote to end his six-year term early, but claimed by critics to set a precedence for the extension of his term in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) on Wednesday, March 23, passed a ruling endorsing the new Electric Energy Law (LIE), thus eliminating all legal cases filed in México against it. The new ruling was proposed by Supreme Court Justice Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, a former federal deputy from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The European Parliament on Thursday, March 10, called on the Mexican government to guarantee the protection of journalists and human rights defenders, noting that this year alone, seven reporters have already been murdered in the country. In a resolution passed with 607 votes in favor, 2 against, and 73 abstentions, the European Parliament expressed
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Somehow the irony of demanding that the supposedly autonomous National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) — which has, as its name implies, among its main duties the protection of Mexican citizen’s personal data — to hand over and publicly reveal personal information of one of his main critics seemed
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AMLO’s Hate-Hate Relationship with the Press
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Monday, Feb. 7, is an official holiday in Mexico. It commemorates (two days late this year) the Feb. 5, 1917, proclamation of the country’s Magna Carta. And whether you see the Monday holiday as a chance to get out of town for a long weekend (hard to do in the times of covid-19) or just a opportunity
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By KELIN DILLON Nearly seven months after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposal to extend the country’s Supreme Court (SCJN) Chief Justice Arturo Zalvídar’s term of office passed through Congress, the SCJN’s Plenary unanimously rejected the so-called “Zalvídar Law” for its unconstitutionality on Tuesday, Nov. 16. The law was set to extend Zalvídar’s seat on the SCJN by
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