By RICARDO CASTILLO … Senator Napoleón Gómez Urrutia wants to modify outsourcing-related clauses within the Federal Labor Law, which could prevent the pact from being passed in the United States…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Every now and then, more often than not, the name of Mexico’s fourth-wealthiest man, Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco, dominates the media with controversial reports. In fact, at the Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat (Semarnat), there are a myriad of files open charging Larrea with crimes of pollution. And if we gauge the amount of media space devoted
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Both houses of the Mexican Congress folded on Tuesday, April 30, ending the first part of formal sessions for this year of 2019. There was one surprise as the Senate sent back to the Chamber of Deputies President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted new law abrogating former President Enrique Peña Nieto’s ill-fated Education Reform. The bill didn’t
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eNapoleón Gómez Urrutia, head of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union. Photo: veracruzenlasnoticas.com By RICARDO CASTILLO The wheel of fortune has made a full circle for Mexican Senator Napoleón Gómez Urrutia. In 2006, Gómez Urrutia, then — and still — leader of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union, fled Mexico Canada-bound, charged with a $55 million embezzlement of union funds. Had he
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Both houses of the Mexican Congress are about to embark on a rewriting of the Ley Federal del Trabajo (Federal Labor Law, or LFT). The LFT debate is expected to be multifaceted and particularly interesting, mainly because the administration of the current Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), will undoubtedly favor the exploited and beleaguered Mexican working class.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It is not the intention of this column to involve you, the reader, in Mexican politics. Yet, unavoidably, the subject at hand is indeed at the very heart of Mexican politics. Last week, two political coalitions issued their lists of “candidates” to become “pluri-nominal” senators to represent them in Congress. The moniker pluri-nominal candidate is a mere formality since
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