OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) so-called electoral reform bill, which he announced during his Thursday, April 28, press conference at the National Palace and sent to Congress for approval that same day, has one purpose and one purpose only: to further consolidate power in his dictatorial hands and to essentially eradicate any political opposition
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In recent weeks in Mexico, the national news headlines have pointed to the same issue: the growing numbers of missing and murdered women throughout the country. This social phenomenon is on the rise, with 969 gender-based murders of women last year alone. The first cases of mass femicide in Mexico that captured the
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The cultural diversity of Mexico today is the result of the syncretism of the native indigenous peoples and the Western culture, brought from Spain by the colonizers to the territory in 1521 that produced what we now know as the Mexican culture. Every aspect of the country’s indigenous cultures — includings language, religion, art
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After his much-touted electricity reform bill — which would have prioritized state-run carbon-based energy sources over cleaner alternatives from private companies — was defeated in a historic vote at the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday, April 17, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) called all those legislators who voted against it “traitors to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With the government’s new Dos Bocas oil refinery slated to open in July and the expanded operations of the Paraíso refinery in Tabasco, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Tuesday, April 12, that Mexico will be self-sufficient in gasoline, diesel and turbine fuel production by the year 2023. Speaking during his quarterly State
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just hours after Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) declared President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) electricity reform bill “constitutional” (in a bizarre four in favor-seven against vote that somehow favored the ayes over the nays), U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar late Thursday, April 7, warned that if the electrical reform promoted by the president
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Thousands of Mexican women are expected to take to the streets on Tuesday, March 8, to mark International Women’s Day (IWD), and while President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has called on the marchers to avoid violence, few expect the protests to be 100 percent pacifistic. Mexico, with one of the highest per capita incidences of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After stating that Mexico is against any use of military force to resolve geopolitical disputes, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, Feb. 24, said that he “has a plan” to avoid fuel price hikes in Mexico stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “In terms of foreign policy, Mexico is going to continue promoting dialogue,
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Despite what he might think, Mexican Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón will not be a National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party candidate for the 2024 presidential elections for Morena. and that has already been determined by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) himself. Instead, Ebrard has become — intentionally or otherwise — a convenient
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) accused Panamanian Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes of acting line the “Spanish Inquisition” for denying approval of disgraced historian Pedro Salmerón as his ambassador to that country on Tuesday, Feb. 2, and saying that the Central American nation’s president was no doubt not even aware of her ruling,
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