By RICARDO CASTILLO On Sunday, June 2, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) flagged the initiation of the construction of a new oil refinery at the Tabasco double-cove port known as Dos Bocas. Unlike in the case of his initial move to bring an end to the massive fuel theft that was going on at the state-owned company Petróleos
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It was an odd but politically meaningful meeting at the National Palace on Wednesday, May 1 (International Labor Day), when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) offered an official lunch to the country’s most important union leaders. Odd because many of the leaders belong to a kind of club that is nicknamed in political circles the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO By shutting off the ducts carrying fuel from the state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in order to stop robbery, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) opened up a Pandora’s box. His problem is now how to shut it closed again. AMLO’s open declaration of war against huachicol (pronounce wa-chee-kol), or fuel theft, is, 17 days since it
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The good news is that by moving the Mexican Army to take over Pemex oil refineries, refined fuels theft stopped almost overnight. The bad news is that, nowadays, the residents of the Guanajuato, Querétaro, Michoacán, Jalisco and State of Mexico (Edoméx) can´t get a liter of green or red gas for their vehicles. Theft stopped, but the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Two events on Wednesday, Aug. 8, stood out on the Mexican political landscape. One was expected, but the second one was not. To clear things up quickly, the expected event was when Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) finally got the official recognition from the Federal Electoral Court as president-elect- No surprise there. The unexpected event happened at 1:30 a.m. – nearly 12 hours before
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