By RICARDO CASTILLO Fake Invoicing Party Is Over Slowly but surely, Mexico’s Tax Administration Service (SAT) and the country’s fiscal attorney general are going after those who practiced what became during the past administration the most popular sport among businessmen: tax evasion. Fiscal Attorney General Carlos Romero announced his office was issuing culprits a warning salvo to straighten up their
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Don’t Whine Later! The programmed meeting of the Permanent Committee of the Mexican Congress to discuss the revamping of the administration’s Expenditures Bill has been postponed for at least two weeks due to the expanding coronavirus pandemic. Chamber of Deputies Majority Leader Mario Delgado Carrillo said that he had talked over the phone with Senate President Mónica
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Two Women’s Days It’s not amazing, given the nature of the brutality of some Mexican machos, to be witnessing the enormous support the two days of protest by Mexican women is getting just about from everywhere. You name it, social groups, universities, government secretariats (like Education, no classes on Monday, March 9) and entrepreneurial groups have all
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By RICARDO CASTILLO After six hours of heated debate, Mexican Chamber of Deputies president-reelect Porfirio Muñoz Ledo decided on Tuesday Sept. 3, to step down from the post. By so doing, he prevented a constitutional crisis within the chamber, which in turn would have reflected in more conflict for the bills that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) wants to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … The octogenarian uprooted an agreement voted into practice in 2007 stating that each party had the right to lead the legislative house for one year…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The frictional mood at Mexico’s majority political party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), became evident on Monday, Aug. 19, as current Senate leader Martí Batres Guadarrama lost his bid for reelection to Mónica Fernández Balboa by 33 to 29 votes. Should all go well, Fernández Balboa will be confirmed next week and begin her position as Senate
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