Mexico News Roundup
By RICARDO CASTILLO … A quick review of the most important news items in Mexico over the last few days…
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Legal Gate Opens to Start Construction of Santa Lucía Airport
By RICARDO CASTILLO … A Mexico City district judge mandated the nullification of one of eight injunctions to suspend construction of the Santa Lucia airport…
Read moreAMLO Touts 4T Success in State of the Nation Address
By RICARDO CASTILLO … The Mexican president’s annual State of the Nation Address had few surprises and little new information, but was eloquently presented…
Read moreAt Long Last, Investors Respond to AMLO’s Call
By RICARDO CASTILLO … The Mexican business community is finally showing an inkling of positivity toward President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)…
Read moreThe Dog Fight over Santa Lucía Airport
By RICARDO CASTILLO One day yes and the next day no. Again we’re getting bombarded with news of judges ordering the cancellation of the still-to-be-built Santa Lucía Airport located just northwest of the Teotihuacán pyramida, to the north of Mexico City. As of last week, 80 suits had been filed on environmental grounds stating that the damage the airport would
Read moreEclac’s Bárcena: AMLO Grabbed the Bull by the Horns
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexicans are divided between two opinions: One, those who have faith in the “profound economic model transformation” slowly but surely being promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), and two, those AMLO calls “conservative hypocrites,” who are presently even denouncing the Mexican democratic system as nothing less than a scourge for having elected this populist dude
Read moreThe View from the North: Violence Turns Mexicans against AMLO
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Over the course of the last few weeks, I’ve heard from many of my Mexican friends about the surging violence south of the U.S. border. It is no longer a case of cartel versus cartel. Instead, the murders have spilled into urban areas, and the Mexican people are scared. I saw this post from Mamela Fiallo Flor in
Read moreSanta Lucia Airport Beleaguered by Suits
By RICARDO CASTILLO Was there or was there not corruption involved in the construction of the now-defunct New International Mexico Airport (NAIM)? Just Monday, July 15, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said there was corruption in many of the already-awarded construction contracts, while Communications and Transportation Secretary (SCT) Javier Jiménez Espriú stated that corruption was not an issue
Read moreAMLO and Slim Mend Fences
By RICARDO CASTILLO Just when everyone in Mexico thought President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and tycoon entrepreneur Carlos Slim had frozen their relationship, last Friday, June 28, they reappeared together in the state of Oaxaca to relaunch the completion of the 150-kilometer-long, two-expanded-lane Milta-Tehuantepec super highway, with an 8-billion-peso investment. Was this event the beginning of the thawing of
Read moreAMLO’s July 1 Victory Is Now a Holiday
By RICARDO CASTILLO Although Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is celebrating the first year of his landslide victory on Monday, July 1, he has actually only spent seven months as head of state. His six-year term began on Dec. 1, 2018. But a year ago, there was no doubt about it, and he began giving orders right from
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