By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Since the global covid-19 pandemic first erupted in March of 2020, Mexico’s economy has dropped two spots, from 15th to 17th place. according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). That is the worst position it has held since 1988, when it occupied the same place in a list of 190 nations. The Mexican economy
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The parliamentary defeat on Sunday, April 17, of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform bill was not only a bruising blow for the Mexican president’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, but it was also a chance for the Mexican people to settle some outstanding score within the country’s so-called Green Party. In the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a sign that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) unbridled political power is finally beginning to wane, opposition members of the country’s lower house Chamber of Deputies mustered enough votes on Sunday, April 17, to block the passage of his controversial electricity reform bill, which would have prioritized contaminating carbon-based energy sources from state-run entities
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Four members of the U.S. Senate, led by Bob Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, April 6,stating that there is mounting evidence that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is attacking the
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By KELIN DILLON Less than a week after Mexico’s Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) prohibited the federal government and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration from promoting April 10’s upcoming mandate revocation through government propaganda, the Mexican government has come under fire for using military planes, the National Guard and Army generals to
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As part of an ongoing program launched earlier in the month by the Miguel Hidalgo municipality of Mexico City to bolster international cultural exchange, the Hungarian Embassy in Mexico offered a daylong tourism and education fair at the Miguel Hidalgo mayor’s office on Thursday, March 31. The festival included a display of travel attractions and educational opportunities
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar reprimanded Mexico’s lower house Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, March 24, for launching a Mexico-Russia Friendship Group one day earlier with Moscow’s envoy Víktor Koronelli in tow. Speaking before the same parliamentarians, Salazar said that in the midst of Russia’s brutal invasion into Ukraine, “this sort of endorsement”
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was announcing that the Joe Biden administration had determined Russia had indeed committed war crimes in Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to Mexico Víktor Koronelli went before Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, March 23, to “congratulate” the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for not
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After audio recordings of Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero were leaked on YouTube on Friday, March 4, showing him plotting with Federal Prosecutor Juan Ramos López regarding the ongoing “case” against Gertz Manero’s 94-year-old sister-in-law and 69-year-old niece, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) once again expressed his unflinching support of the controversial
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By KELIN DILLON Following a number of high-profile controversies throughout her term as head of Mexico City’s oldest and most historic district, Cuauhtémoc Mayor Sandra Cuevas has once more invited criticism into her administration as the official burst into, then canceled, a press conference surrounding allegations that Cuevas had been throwing balloons with 500-peso bills glued to them from the
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