At around 4:20 p.m. on Sunday, about 70 people blocked a part of the Mexico City-Cuernavaca Highway for an hour, causing chaos, mainly in the Insurgentes and Viaducto Tlalpan area toward Cuernavaca
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Mexico’s National Institute for Transparency Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (INAI) has been all over the news lately — but for all the wrong reasons
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Plan B eliminates these executive boards and eliminates their five committees: executive, secretarial, federal voter registration, organization, as well as electoral training that, until today, are made up of qualified members of the National Electoral Professional Service
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And the government is not done yet, as Sedatu launched a tender to build a new baseball stadium in Tepic, Nayarit
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By MARK LORENZANA The Mexican federal government’s decision to reduce slots (takeoff and landing times) at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) for the winter season continues to take its toll on travelers. Volaris, a popular Mexican low-cost airline based in Mexico City, canceled 74 flights — “operational adjustments,” according to Volaris — at the AICM between Tuesday, Nov. 1,
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By MARK LORENZANA According to documents leaked by hacktivist group Guacamaya, the federal government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the Armed Forces have at their disposal a “discretionary bag” worth 113 billion pesos from a trust fund of Mexico’s National Customs Agency (ANAM). Despite the promise of López Obrador to extinguish trust funds or “fideicomisos” under his
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By MARK LORENZANA The Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) will send 10 million Pfizer doses for children to Mexico, after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) threatened to file a lawsuit against the United Nations-backed alliance, which owes the country $75 million worth of vaccines. According to Mexican Undersecretary of Public Health Hugo López-Gatell, speaking at López Obrador’s daily press
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By MARK LORENZANA The Mexican federal government has continued its trend of prioritizing subsidies over investments, despite the economic crisis brought about by the covid-19 pandemic. In the first six months of this year, subsidies and financial transfers totaled 463.5 billion pesos, according to data released by Mexico’s Secretariat of Finance (SHCP). In contrast, physical investment — which is focused on building, conserving
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By MARK LORENZANA The Mexican federal government illegally appropriated 91.5 hectares of private land to build the Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA). The Tenth Collegiate Court in Administrative Matters confirmed on June 3 of this year the protection granted to the heirs of Raúl Romero Zenizo, who proved to be the legitimate owners of two pieces of land in the
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By MARK LORENZANA Members of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) have alleged that the salaries of Cuban doctors recently hired by the leftist government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may be higher than those of their Mexican counterparts, based on the previous salaries that they purportedly received when a large contingent of physicians from Cuba arrived
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