By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is not unaccustomed to bad press. Ever since he took office in December 2018 for what he has promised will be a normal six-year term (as specified in the Mexican Constitution, but which many of his detractors fear he will extend, as he has already extended the constitutional term of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite countless physical and verbal assaults, numerous alleged kidnappings and the murders of at least 90 politicians over the pre-election campaigns, Mexico held its largest national polling Sunday, June 6, with relatively little violence and minimal political snags. Polls across the country opened at 8 a.m. sharp, with an estimated 40 million eligible voters
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s 2021 midterm elections came with a hefty price tag, more than 3.341 billion pesos, to be exact. According to the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) audit portal, as of Wednesday, June 2 — the last official day that candidates were allowed to campaign — the 29,568 gubernatorial, legislative, state and municipal candidates running for
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just five days before a visit from U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and four days before Mexico’s largest elections ever, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, June 2, accused the U.S. Embassy here of trying to “fuel descent” against his government by supporting independent civil organizations. Speaking during his daily morning press
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF There seems to be no bounds when it comes to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) tenacious obsession with keeping his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party in power. As El Universal columnist and FOROtv news anchor Ana Paula Ordorica pointed out in a May 19 article for Americas Quarterly magazine, even when
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been having a bad week. As Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola astutely pointed out in his Wednesday, May 26, column in El Universal daily newspaper, so far this week, AMLO’s so-called Fourth Transformation (4T) national redux has been leveled by a triple political whammy as a perfect storm
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since he first took office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been pushing to consolidating his institutional power by dismantling independent institutions, mandating constitutional rewrites and discrediting his opponents through unsubstantiated charges of criminal activity. One of the most notable victims of this latter political tactic has been the current governor
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS There’s no debating the fact that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) knows which side of his bread is buttered on (and which side to keep on buttering). As his popularity continues to wane due to his disastrous mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic, his head-strong insistence on pouring seemingly endless funds into a moribund state-run energy
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum offered the relatives of the 26 fatal victims of the May 3 Line 12 Metro crash a financial compensation of just 650,000 pesos (about $32,500) each, the families filed a joint action law suit against the city late Friday, May 7. In an interview with El Financiero newspaper,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that Mexico still ranks in fourth place in the number of covid-19 deaths (after the United States, India and Brazil), President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration has committed far more financial resources to his pet Tren Maya tourist train than to public health efforts to curb the pandemic, according to
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