By KELIN DILLON In the first 26 months of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration, Mexico’s foreign debt increased by $22.3 billion, an increase of 46 percent from the term of his predecessor, Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN). The difference in external debt accrued between the two presidencies amounted to approximately $7.3 billion. Carlos Vázquez Vidal, an analyst at
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Salgado Macedonia Keeps Going and Going and Going It seems that wannabe Guerrero governor Félix Salgado Macedonio just can’t take “no” for an answer. Despite the fact that both the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Guerrero Electoral Institute approved the cancelation of his candidacy for Mexico’s June 6 elections on grounds that he did not fully report
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what constituted his first trimestral State of the Nation Address on the night of Tuesday, March 30, Mexican President Andrés Manuel (AMLO) painted a rosy economic and social portrait of the country, promising a “new utopia” despite an 8.5 percent economic contraction in 2020 and more than 300,000 deaths so far from covid-19.
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Tragic Saga of Victoria She came to Mexico as a refugee in 2018, with the hopes of eventually making her way to the United States and getting political asylum there. But for 36-year-old Salvadorian Victoria Esperanza Salazar Arriaza, the journey north would come to an abrupt end at the hands of the Mexican police, who, after
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By KELIN DILLON The controversial new changes to Mexico’s electricity law will now see the nation’s Secretariat of Energy (Sener) and Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) review more than 20,000 permits granted to private individuals and enterprises in the energy sector under previous presidential administrations. The review will look into permits to operate and open service stations outside of the Petróleos
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS From Fuel Thief to Candidate The former head of Mexico’s left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in the northern state of Tamaulipas, Miguel Ángel Almaraz Maldonado, who was arrested in 2009 by the Federal Attorney General’s Office for allegedly working with the Zetas organized crime group to steal oil from the state-run oil giant Petróleos Mexicanos
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Roberta’s Back In May 2018, then-outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson made a prediction, saying that she was not saying goodbye but rather “so long.” On Tuesday, March 23, Jacobson kept her promise and returned to Mexico, this time as U.S. President Joe Biden’s southern border affairs representative. Jacobson led a committee of U.S. officials in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO An Irate Response After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) asked Supreme Court Chief Justice Arturo Zaldivar to order an investigation into Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro (who indefinitely suspended the president’s controversial new electricity bill), Zaldivar complied and requested the officer in charge of the Council of the Judiciary, Carlos Alpízar, to pay a visit
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Erstwhile Aztec and Spaniards Meet in Court A major political war between the modern conquest version of the Aztec versus the Spaniards is now being wagered in Mexico between conservative and liberal forces. The conflict was sparked by the controversial ruling made by Second District Court for the Administration, Economic Competency and Broadcast Services for Mexico City
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By RICARDO CASTILLO New Mexican Tourist Resort Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Saturday visited the largest of the three islands, popularly known as “Las Marías,” off the coast of Nayarit in the Pacific Ocean. During his visit, AMLO announced that in three months the archipelago, which once served as a federal prison, would open up to tourists as
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