OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It isn’t hard to find dirt on Mexico’s Maccise family, a devious mafia of media power and political imposition based out of Toluca, in the State of Mexico (EdoMéx), that has used its money and political clout to influence elections, silence reporters and bulldoze legislation for its own agenda for more than three decades. The family’s
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Senate passed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial outsourcing bill with near-unanimous approval on Tuesday, April 20, thus limiting the public and private sector’s ability to subcontract and outsource labor for projects. The bill passed through the Senate with 118 votes in favor, two in abstention and none against, allowing the reform to continue with
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By KELIN DILLON Following an eight-hour debate, Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies approved Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) outsourcing bill without a single change, sending it to the Senate for further analysis and ratification. Much of the eight-hour debate was taken up rejecting the 38 reservations and proposals for modification from various parliamentary groups, after which the vote was
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A Shot of Nothing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) seems to be more obsessed over the incident in which one elderly woman in the northwestern state of Sonora was given an “empty” covid-19 vaccine injection last month than he claims the media is. The alleged mistake occurred when an apparently overworked nursing student accidently jabbed a
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON Larry Rubin, former president and CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico, advised caution to legislators before their approval of the outsourcing bill proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). In an interview with Forbes México on Tuesday, Dec. 8, Rubin said that Mexico must take foreign investment seriously and proceed carefully on
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Negotiations on the controversial personnel outsourcing legislation bill proposed to the Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Nov. 12 have been postponed until February 2021, the president announced on Wednesday, Dec. 9. During an early meeting at the National Palace with business leaders and labor representatives, AMLO said that the details
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO Reshuffles his Queens The reshuffling of women in the Mexican presidential cabinet that was announced on Monday, Dec. 7, may not be to the liking of many, but the dice have already rolled and the shots stand. The problem with the five reappointed women in the cabinet of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is not
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Businesses Hit the Outsourcing Panic Button The start of an Open Parliament to discuss Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed reform of outsourcing practices forced the leading business organization representatives to call for an emergency meeting with him that very same day. The president received the businessmen at the National Palace. Given the positioning of
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