By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López (AMLO) may not put much stock in the downgrades issued in recent weeks by the Big Three international credit agencies, Fitch, Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s, but the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) certainly seems to. In its latest global economic forecast, published on Wednesday, March 6,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It seems that about once a week, U.S. ratings are playing an old racist version of the Whac-A-Mole carnival game with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). In these now-defunct fairs, pitchers would be given three balls to throw at a black man – a real person – in an attempt to hit him. Behind the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s hard to understand why Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) reacted viscerally to the two-level downgrading New York-based Fitch Ratings made of the state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) last Tuesday, Jan. 29. In any case, if there is going to be a culprit for the heinous performance of Pemex finances, it is none other than
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