By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Wednesday, Sept. 2, that lawyer María Estela Ríos González will assume the role of his chief legal counselor, a seat opened by the exit of the president’s former counselor Julio Scherer Ibarra. After thanking Scherer Ibarra (whose exodus had been foretold by rumors across partisan divides
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced his pursuit of three significant changes to the Mexican Constitution on Tuesday, June 15, focusing on reforms to the document’s electrical, electoral and military sections. López Obrador proposed constitutional electrical reform seeks to strengthen the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) so that standard users will not pay higher rates
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Based on an article published over the weekend in El Universal newspaper, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) intends to incorporate his 160,000-member-strong National Guard (GN) into the country’s National Defense Secretariat (Sedena). According to the El Universal report, in a recent meeting with “a small group of Mexican businessmen,” AMLO let it slip that he
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just in case you are wondering why Monday, March 15, is an official holiday here in Mexico, it is in observation of the 1807 birthday of five-time president Benito Juárez, a national hero who helped chase the French out of the country, overthrew the Hapsburg-imposed empire of Maximillian I, and restored the republic under a liberal regime
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The New York City Bar Association (NYCBA) on Thursday, March 11, issued a formal statement expressing it “serious concerns” about remarks made by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) during his daily news conference on Monday, Feb. 22, in which he accused Mexican lawyers of “treason against the country” for representing foreign companies
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF) decided in a majority vote on Wednesday, Feb. 18, to reverse the decision made by the National Electoral Institute (INE) to prevent public servants, particularly Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), from speaking publicly about Mexico’s electoral process as the nation approaches its midterm elections this June.
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Today, Monday, Feb. 1, is an official holiday in Mexico. It commemorates (four days early 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
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By KELIN DILLON The Complaints Commission of the National Electoral Institute of Mexico (INE) had its warning to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) revoked by the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF) in a ruling on Tuesday, Dec. 15. The INE’s original preventative protection warning came on Friday, Dec. 5, after AMLO continually voiced his distaste for
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican Electoral Councilor Jaime Rivera Velázquez of the National Electoral Institute (INE) said it will hold president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), to the electoral standards of the Mexican Constitution. AMLO has caught flack repeatedly for speaking out against opponents during his daily press conferences, something that defies constitutional law in Mexico. The president has
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