By KELIN DILLON It was revealed in the release of Mexico’s Expenditure Budget for 2022, which details all the allocated funds for the upcoming year, that the country’s XXI Century Medical Insurance Program would receive a budget of zero pesos, leaving more than 4 million families without medical care for their children. The insurance was created in 2007 under the
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s “Va por México” alliance, consisting of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), and centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), will reportedly go to the Organization of American States (OAS) to denounce the violence in the country surrounding the nation’s elections. The parties claim the drastic uptick in violence before
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Former Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada — a longtime critic of and target of insults from current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — issued a tweet on Saturday, July 2, directed not at López Obrador, but rather to his followers, warning them to wake up and smell the coffee. “In the face of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), nearly three years into his six-year term, spoke to the nation in a televised address on Thursday, July 1, marking the third anniversary of his 2018 electoral victory. During the 40-minute address, AMLO showcased what he said were his administration’s most important successes and made predictions for
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS One day after the New York Times laid the blame for the May 3 collapse of Mexico City’s Line 12 Metro (which led to the deaths of 26 people) squarely on his shoulders, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard published a guest editorial in the Washington Post on Tuesday, June 15, defending the government of President Andrés
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In yet another scathing international media report on Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) autocratic policies, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an editorial on Tuesday, June 8, calling Mexico’s June 6 midterm elections “a vote for democracy against the president’s radical ambitions.” In the front-page editorial, titled “Mexico Checks AMLO’s Power” and credited to the WSJ editorial
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s historically large midterm elections, held on Sunday, June 6, have finally come to definitive results, barring a handful of cases that have necessitated recounts. More than 47.4 million people turned out for Sunday’s vote, putting the country’s citizen participation at 52.67 percent for the record-sized elections. The National Electoral Institute’s (INE) quick count of votes puts
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) lost its qualified majority in the Chamber of Deputies during the elections held on Sunday, June 6, curbing its ability to modify the nation’s constitution without outside help. Preliminary results announced by the National Electoral Institute (INE) on Sunday evening showed Morena projected to win 35 percent of the votes into
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) lost his partisan stranglehold of Congress in the Sunday, June 6, midterm elections, thus limiting his ability to ram through initiatives and rewrite the constitution on a whim, his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party apparently gained territory on the gubernatorial front, winning 11 of 15 slots, according to
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