By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — Leftist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is now halfway through his six-year term, and has promised to not try to stay in office when that term expires on Nov. 30, 2024. Which begs the question: Who will succeed him in that office? Is it too early to predict next
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By ADRIANA GARCÍA VALDERRAMA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said that he foresees that as soon as all the nation’s education personnel gets vaccinated against the covid-19 virus, classes will return to “normal” to conclude the 2020-2021 school year with live classes. According to Mexican Secretary of Public Education Delfina Gómez, vaccination is already underway in Aguascalientes, Baja
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Thugs in Uniforms Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) ever-expanding army of National Guard (GN) troops has been flexing its muscles in a violent show of force against civilians, proving once again that unbridled military power is a threat to the nation and the Mexican people alike. In just the last month alone, members of AMLO’s
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ancira Negotiations Imprisoned Mexican steel tycoon Alonso Ancira’s lawyer, José Luis Castañeda, continued negotiations at the Mexico City North Penitentiary late Tuesday, Feb. 9, and finally came up with a figure that his client will have to pay to win his freedom. In an out-of-court negotiation still to be ratified, Mexico’s state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Rumors Abound Ever since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced in a tweet on Sunday, Jan. 24, that he had tested positive for coivd-19 and had gone into quarantine, countless rumors have been flying across the media and gossip mills as to the validity of his announcement. Some critics suggested that AMLO had not, in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite a relaxation in sanitary restrictions in states that have lowered their covid-19 risk to level yellow or green, Mexico’s tourism remains one of the country’s industries most economically impaired by the coronavirus pandemic. The country’s tourism segment that has been hardest hit is the international sector, which, month after month, has registered dramatic
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XINHUA Mexico is seeing a slow recovery in employment levels after the gradual reopening of businesses that were closed due to the novel coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) reported on Wednesday, Oct. 22. Unemployment rates among Mexico’s Economically Active Population (EAP) fell to 5.1 percent in September, from the 5.2 percent that was recorded
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XINHUA Mexico’s exports grew by 4.88 percent in August compared to July, marking the third month in a row of growth after dropping due to the novel coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) said on Monday, Sept. 28. Exports totaled $37.047 billion in August compared to $35.324 billion the previous month, according to seasonally adjusted
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Curtain up, the “L” Show Is On Finally, Mexico’s Fiscal General of the Republic (FGR) ordered the start of the trial of former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya Austin on two separate charges. The charges will be dealt with in separate hearings. On Tuesday, July 28, Federal Judge José Artemio Zúñiga Mendoza opened the first of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Salina Cruz Pier Expanded Notwithstanding a myriad of problems still left to be resolved in the construction of the Inter-Oceanic Train Corridor at the Tehuantepec Isthmus, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) inaugurated the first leg of the project, constituting an extension of the docking pier at the Salina Cruz port. AMLO said the dock would
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