By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Commercial activities in Mexico City are slowly beginning to come to a standstill as literally hundreds of drivers have begun to sleep in their cars awaiting gasoline – some so long that they have run out of gas completely and now cannot move the vehicles at all – and sales at el Centro de
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The good news is that by moving the Mexican Army to take over Pemex oil refineries, refined fuels theft stopped almost overnight. The bad news is that, nowadays, the residents of the Guanajuato, Querétaro, Michoacán, Jalisco and State of Mexico (Edoméx) can´t get a liter of green or red gas for their vehicles. Theft stopped, but the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As part of his plan to make Mexico more economically solvent and reduce the national debt, newly instated President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Saturday, Dec.15, that he will boost the country’s crude oil production by 45 percent by the year 2025. Speaking before a crowd of supporters in the oil-rich city of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The change over of presidents in Mexico is always a formal event, and this time was no exception, except for the fact that the style of doing things has changed. Some, if not all, of the stiff formality of yesteryear was absent in the proceedings that took place on Saturday, Dec. 1. The real change of administrations
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO For a prelude to a presidency, surely that of Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has got too many dissonant chords. First it was his decision to control oil crude production that caused a market shakeup and further peso devaluation. Then came the cancelation of the ongoing construction of the new airport that sent markets skidding and pumped the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Most definitely, Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is getting all the media attention usually reserved for the standing president, namely, in this case, Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN.) But why is this? The answer is easy: Peña Nieto is now working in the shadows as the glare of the limelight shines brightly on AMLO – slated to become president
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By RICARDO CASTILLO At long last, we are beginning to hear some of the details of the United States Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) negotiations. According to Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the toughest clause was on energy, which was almost a deal-breaker. After heavy disputes, that bickering President Donald Trump finally softened his stance and spoke over the phone to AMLO.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Throughout his electoral campaign, Mexico’s now-President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) kept on promising something he calls “the fourth transformation”, as well as the construction of the “Fourth Republic.” In reality, the concept is not new, since AMLO has been hammering on the “transformation” of Mexico since his first run for president back in 2006, when he lost by a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least 1,200 families were evacuated from their homes in the central Mexican state of Puebla on Wednesday, Sept. 12, as the result of a Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) gas pipeline leak. The neighborhoods evacuated included Vicente Guerrero, Villa Frontera, Colonia San Pedro, Villas del Marquez, Villas de San Gregorio, Revolución Mexicana and Venustiano Carranza.
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