PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, Dec. 14, named Sergio Céspedes Peregrina as the new substitute governor of the central state of Puebla. Céspedes Peregrina replaces Miguel Barbosa, who died suddenly on Tuesday, Dec. 13, just one day before he was due to present his fourth annual State of the State Address. Céspedes Peregrina
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Puebla Governor Miguel Barbosa died on Tuesday, Dec. 13, at age 63 from unknown causes. Barbosa, a leftist firebrand member of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party who came to office after a mysterious helicopter crash in late December 2018 killed Martha Erika Alonso, the woman who had run against him and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Miguel Barbosa, the governor of the central Mexican state of Puebla, dismissed the mass murder of nine people in the town of Atlixco on Wednesday, March 10, since, in his words, “they were not from the state, and besides, they were drug traffickers.” Barbosa, a member of President Andrés Manuel López Obradro’s (AMLO) leftist
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XINHUA At least one person died and 15 others were injured in an explosion near an illegal tap on a pipeline belonging to Mexico’s state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company in the central state of Puebla, local authorities said on Sunday, Oct. 31. Puebla Governor Miguel Barbosa said in a press conference that the accident occurred near a liquefied petroleum
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Political Lockup No sooner had Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) backed down Friday, Jan. 22, on permitting states government and private businesses to purchase anti-covid vaccines, then the 10 governors belonging to the opposition group Federalist Alliance (AF) fired back, complaining that AMLO’s change of mind had come “too late.” “The authorization to join this
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The former governor of the central Mexican state of Jalisco, Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz, was gunned down in Puerto Vallarta in the early hours of Friday, Dec. 18. Sandoval Díaz, a member of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as governor of Jalisco from 2013 to 2018, was shot dead at point-blank
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a scathing review of the Mexican president’s first two years in office, the highly acclaimed El Universal daily newspaper this weekend offered a point-by-point breakdown of some of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) most prominent failures, on the eve of his second State of the Nation Address, slated for Tuesday, Dec. 1. AMLO,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Brutal Contradictions in 4T Environment and Natural Resources Secretary (Semarnat) Victor Manuel Toledo Manzur in an apparently private gathering called on the public not to idealize Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) Fourth Transformation (4T) ideological program because, he said, there are within it “brutal contradictions” and “it does not exist” when it comes to protecting
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Bleak Outlook on Poverty There is no question that Mexico’s gross domestic product will plummet this year. The question is how much it will fall, and guesses range from between 5.7 percent to 10.5 percent. A recent study by the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development (Coneval) presented two different economic scenarios for the rest
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Storm Brews over Clean Energy Ban After the vociferous reaction from a number of top Mexican and international business organization leaders against the new ordinance published in the Official Gazette on Friday, May 15, by the Energy Secretariat called the Policy of Trustworthiness, Security, Continuity and Quality in the National Electricity System, as well as a myriad
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