AMLO Allows Transgenic Corn for Animal Feed, Industrial Use
For 20 years, various groups in Mexico have been seeking a ban on GMOs or transgenics
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AMLO’s Plan B Loophole
Mexican society should be able to raise its hands to defend itself
Read moreAMLO Issues Decree to Move Cargo Transport Out of Mexico City
AMLO’s own appointed director of the AIFA, Isidoro Pastor Román, said that the Felipe Ángeles facticity is already overextended in terms of international cargo usage by more than 40 percent
Read moreAll Mexican Schools, Public and Private, Must Use Controversial New Study Plan
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Just three days after introducing its controversial new public education plan — which prioritizes political indoctrination over academic study — and promising that it would initially only be used as a pilot program in 1,000 public schools, the administration of Mexico’s leftist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) .on Friday, Aug. 19, announced that, instead, it will
Read moreConagua Declares State of Emergency over Mexico’s Continued Drought
By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, July 12, Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) declared a state of emergency in light of the enduring drought facing Mexico’s northern states, establishing new regulations for water distribution in the affected territories through the emergency’s publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation. According to Conagua, newly introduced measures to address the drought issue include
Read morePemex Head in Houston ‘Purchases’ Multimillion-Peso Mansion
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After it was revealed by the daily newspaper Reforma that Carmelina Esquer Camacho, director of Pemex Procurement International (PPI), a Texas-based subsidiary of Mexico’s state-owned oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), had acquired a residence in Houston valued at more than $400,000 (equivalent to about 8 million pesos) in late 2020, repeated requests to make
Read moreAMLO National Security Decree Draws Widespread Backlash
By KELIN DILLON In a presidential decree published in Mexico’s Official Gazette of the Federation on Monday, Nov. 22, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) determined all projects and works sanctioned by the nation’s government a matter of national security, drawing widespread criticism toward López Obrador’s continued prioritization of his favored pet projects and subsequent dwindling transparency to the
Read moreAMLO Gives Armed Forces Control of New Customs Agency
By KELIN DILLON In his press conference on the morning of Thursday, July 15, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that the country’s Armed Forces will be taking control of the newly created National Customs Agency of Mexico (ANAM), with the transition set to happen within the next 180 days. “We are going to strengthen land and maritime
Read moreZaldívar Law Published Day After Elections
By KELIN DILLON The controversial law extending the term of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) President Arturo Zaldívar by three years, known as the Zaldívar Law, was published into effect on Monday, June 7, just one day after the biggest elections in Mexico’s history. The amendments to the Organic Law of the Judicial Power of the
Read moreMexico’s Government Abandons Its Disabled Community
By KELIN DILLON In the two years of the current presidential administration, Mexico’s government only gave out scholarships to 10 percent of its disabled population, while cutting millions of pesos in funding from the organization that defends their human rights, leaving the country’s disabled community hung out to dry amid the devastating covid-19 pandemic. According to the National Institute of
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