By RICARDO CASTILLO Now and then, you have a woman in Mexican politics hit the headlines. But what was most unusual on Monday. Aug. 12, and early Tuesday, Aug. 13, was to have three ladies in politics in less than 24 hours grab media coverage. Whoever had doubts that women are advancing in strides in politically impossible macho-land had better
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Once upon a time, back on Dec. 2, 2012, when former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto appointed Rosario Robles Berlanga as the Social Development (Sedesol) Secretary, this columnist published an article in The News – then the only English-language daily in Mexico – claiming that Rosario was “a woman for all seasons” and “a survivor.” That may
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) promised that inflation would be kept at a maximum of 3.4 percent rate in 2019, overall price increases for the first half of March shot up to 3.95 percent, according to the National Consumer Price Index (INCO), a subdivision of the National Institute
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite angry protests over the weekend and the as-of-yet unsolved Feb. 20 murder of the leader of an opposition movement against it, the opening of a controversial new hydroelectric plant in the central state of Morelos is set to continue as planned, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, Feb. 25. Announcing the results of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Samir Flores Soberanes – a leading activist against a controversial thermoelectric plant and gas duct that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has proposed opening despite concerns that they will harm the surrounding environment – was shot dead by unknown assailants in front of his Amilcingo, Morelos, home in the early morning hours
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Friday, Feb. 7, that his government will hold an open referendum on whether to allow the operation of a state-owned thermoelectric power plant in Yecapixtla, Morelos. The referendum will be held in all municipalities throughout the central Mexican state of Morelos, as well as in the neighboring states
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nissan Motors announced on Thursday, Dec. 20, that is will lay off 1,000 workers at its Cuernavaca and Aguascalientes plants at the start of 2019. The announcement, which comes on the heels of the Japanese auto giant’s arrest a week earlier in Tokyo of former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn on suspicion that he transferred
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