By MARK LORENZANA The Mexican government has just created three new trust funds, or “fideicomisos,” despite a decree by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in March of 2020 ordering the “extinction” of 109 trust funds to combat corruption. The beneficiaries of the three new discretionary trust funds created by the executive branch — without going through Congress — are the
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By MARK LORENZANA José Ramón López Beltrán, eldest son of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), warned Senator Xóchitl Gálvez of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) that he would take legal action against the legislator for “invading the property of others” and “not respecting” his “right to privacy.” “I reserve the right to take any legal action against
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By MARK LORENZANA Senator Beatriz Paredes of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) expressed her interest in seeking the presidency of Mexico in 2024 with the Va por México coalition — an electoral alliance composed of the PRI, the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) — to challenge the ruling party of
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OPINION By MARK LORENZANA The word democracy is a combination of two Greek words: demos, which means “people” and kratos, which means “rule.” The ancient Greeks, after all, are credited with inventing democracy as a form of government. In Mexico, though, “the rule of the people” has been steadily replaced by the rule of one man — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
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By MARK LORENZANA The visit of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the collapsed El Pintabete coal mine in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila — where, on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 10 miners were trapped by the collapse and flooding of a well, and who are yet to be rescued — has added more despair, instead of comfort, to
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) reported on Thursday, Aug. 4, that 30 members of the Immediate Response and Disaster Team, along with six Special Forces divers, were deployed to Sabinas in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, to rescue 10 workers there who were trapped on Wednesday, Aug. 3, in a 60-meter-deep mine after a landslide. Laura Velázquez,
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By MARK LORENZANA Some independent journalists who attend the daily morning press conferences of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) are allegedly paid thousands of pesos by “companies, politicians and unions” to ask planted questions that are “disguised as complaints.” The “Bajo Reserva” column of Mexican daily newspaper El Universal, on Thursday, Aug. 4, reported that YouTube content creator and
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By MARK LORENZANA Javier May, director of Mexico’s National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur), promised residents from the town of Pomuch in the southeast Mexican state of Campeche that the profits from the Tren Maya — one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial pet megaprojects — will be used to increase pension payments to senior citizens.
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By MARK LORENZANA Senator Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas, former president of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) — who also served as secretary of foreign affairs and secretary of tourism under former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto — is open to running for the presidency of Mexico in 2024 to challenge the ruling party, Mexican President Andrés Manuel Obrador’s (AMLO)
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By MARK LORENZANA The federal government of Mexico has tripled the amount planned to subsidize the operations of the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) this year, with the average cost per passenger exceeding 4,700 pesos. Originally planned at 419.4 million pesos, the annual subsidy for the operation of the AIFA has risen to 1.3 billion pesos, an increase of
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