By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS And so it begins… After opening a Pandora box of a video tape of questionable origin, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has now finds himself embroiled in a mounting scandal of allegedly illegal funds that have already cast an incriminating shadow on his left-leaning National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party and even his brother. It all
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A War of Leaks Ever since the 63-page script containing the accusations the former director of the state-run oil interest Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Emilio Lozoya Austin, made against a numerous set of former public officials, a small war of leaks has been taking place in Mexican politics. First Lozoya directly accused former Mexican Presidents Felipe Calderón, Enrique
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The People’s Priority The outcome of the private summit between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the country’s 32 governors on Wednesday, Aug. 19, was twofold in focus, covering both taxation and health. held a press conference with the National Governors’ Conference (Conago), hosted by San Luis Potosí Governor José Manuel Carreras, after the four-hour
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Timing and politicking usually go hand in hand and is almost always in perfect tandem for a shrewd politician. But the visit by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the states of Querétaro and San Luis Potosí on Wednesday, Aug. 19, might just have been a case of the wrong place at the wrong time.
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO First Electoral Blood No sooner had Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) announced that the race for the midterm elections will officially start on Sept. 7, than the first missile was aimed directly at the second political force in the nation, the National Action Party (PAN). A vided allegedly showing Guillermo Gutiérrez Badillo. the private secretary of Querétaro
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The one similarity between former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya Austin and Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (Sedatu) Rosario Robles Berlanga is that both were high level officials during the administration of former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. That is about it. Now that both are being charged of crimes against the nation’s finances,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO and Governors Powwow Mexico’s 32 governors are giddying up to meet on Wednesday, Aug. 19, with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in San Luis Potosí. Previous to the in-person summit, a group of 10 governors known as the Federalist Alliance video conferenced on Saturday, Aug. 15, to outline a plan of discussion with the president.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO and Calderón Exchange Barbs A tit-for-tat rift between former Mexican President Felipe Calderón and the current one, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has been going on throughout the last week. Accusations galore are flying. AMLO started the verbal spat by saying that during the 2006-2012 Calderón mandate, persons now being accused in the United States of
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XINHUA Former Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto accepted bribes from the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht and bribed lawmakers, Emilio Lozoya Austin, the former head of Mexico’s state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), said Tuesday, Aug. 11. Lozoya, who is in custody on corruption charges for his alleged participation in a bribery scheme, made the remarks to Mexican attorney general’s office.
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