Mexico Diverts Climate Change Resources to Tren Maya
A reported 24 billion pesos has been diverted from Mexico’s fight against climate change toward Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s controversial pet project
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CFE Reveals 446 Billion Peso Investment Initiative
However, the CFE’s funding proposal for its 2024 investment plans far eclipses the budget allocated for the state-owned company by the 2024 Expenditure Budget of the Federation
Read moreFelipe Angeles Airport Cost 36 Percent More than Estimated
By KELIN DILLON Several years after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) canceled the construction of Mexico’s New International Airport (NAICM) in 2018 in favor of building the purportedly less-expensive Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) in the region, new figures have revealed that the AIFA has cost the Mexican government 116 billion pesos as of mid-March 2022 – a
Read moreMexico’s Polarizing President
OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Don´t expect to seen any great changes occur during the second half of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year mandate. Based on what he has done so far, it is pretty clear that the next three years of AMLO’s leftist administration will follow the same strategy as it has up until now: social
Read moreMexican Congress Gives AMLO Pricey Birthday Gift
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS So much for multipartisanship in Mexico’s Congress. Despite promises from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party to “hear out and consider” objections regarding certain clauses within the president’s proposed Federal Expenditure Budget (PEF) for 2022, the 7.88 trillion-peso bill passed the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday, Nov. 14, with
Read moreINE Head Ready to Take Budget Fight to Court
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Sunday, Nov. 14, passed a 2022 Federal Expenditure Budget (PEF) that cut the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) annual budget by almost 5 billion pesos, INE President Lorenzo Córdova announced that the institution is prepared to take its case to court to defend its right to sufficient resources to
Read moreThe Dangers of Eliminating Independent Organizations
By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has drawn intense criticism after calling for the elimination of independent organizations by their absorption into the state, a move that would consolidate the Mexican government’s power and remove its checks and balances. López Obrador tried to justify his proposal by saying autonomous organizations “cost a lot to maintain,” going
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