OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) lukewarm response to Russia’s flagrant invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 24, really shouldn’t come as any great surprise. After all, Russia is a longtime backer of AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) government, having allegedly financed at least part of López Obrador’s 2018 presidential campaign, according to some
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) intention to reform Mexico’s energy sector to favor state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has resulted in the reduction of fuel import permits and the cancellation of storage operations, private and foreign companies alike have been forced to reignite a working relationship with Pemex in order to obtain sufficient
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In what can only be considered a case of the fox being sent to guard the henhouse — and then, declaring himself innocent while standing in a coop strewn with dead chickens — Baker Hughes Latin America director Bob Pérez on Monday, Feb. 21, said that having “thoroughly reviewed” the contracts his company has with Mexico’s
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Somehow the irony of demanding that the supposedly autonomous National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) — which has, as its name implies, among its main duties the protection of Mexican citizen’s personal data — to hand over and publicly reveal personal information of one of his main critics seemed
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The Latin America Advisor asks six leading Mexico experts
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By KELIN DILLON After attempting to distance himself from a multinational scandal surrounding his residency in a million-dollar mansion owned by an affiliate of Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in Houston, Texas, José Ramón López Beltrán, the son of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), revealed yet another conflict of the interest in the process of his
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A federal judge in the northern Mexican industrial city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, warned Monday, Feb. 14, that denying permit renewals to the Spanish-owned Iberdrola energy company would have “devastating consequences” for the companies it supplies. Iberdrola, one of several private Spanish-owned energy firms that have borne the brunt of President Andrés Manuel López
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON Following a Twitter forum held over the weekend in defense of Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola’s work and freedom of the press rights, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) – the main target of Loret de Mola’s fact-based reports – has come against the journalist once more in a public forum, taking to his daily
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Thursday, Feb. 10, yet another Mexican journalist was murdered, the fifth so far this year, and the 50th since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took office three years ago. Heber López, from the internet news site Noticias Web in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, was shot dead in broad daylight as he left his office Thursday
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Mexico’s Oil Industry
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