By KELIN DILLON According to reports from Sunday, Aug. 14, five men arrested for involvement in Thursday’s lethal attack on Ciudad Juárez, in which at least 11 people were killed, were sentenced to preventative detention for no more than two years in prison as they continue to be investigated for the crimes of attempted homicide and damages. The accused individuals
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By MARK LORENZANA Even as 10 miners remain trapped in a collapsed mine in the Mexican state of Coahuila, the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been reportedly paying 500,000 pesos a day for the aid — in the form of a firefighting ship — that it has provided Cuba to help the island nation extinguish a
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By MARK LORENZANA José Ramón López Beltrán, eldest son of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), warned Senator Xóchitl Gálvez of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) that he would take legal action against the legislator for “invading the property of others” and “not respecting” his “right to privacy.” “I reserve the right to take any legal action against
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO As a massive crude oil fire in the Cuban port of Matanzas continued to burn for a second day, spreading to yet another storage tank and threatening the island nation’s already-limited energy supply, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Saturday, Aug. 6, announced that he would be sending humanitarian assistance in the form of military
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO In a scathing opinion column published by its editorial board, the Washington Post on Monday, Aug. 1, said that while it would be best for the United States and Mexico to resolve their differences within an “atmosphere of calm and mutual cooperation, with no gratuitous irritations to this vital bilateral relationship,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO)
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican Treasury Secretary Rogelio Ramírez de la O said he authorized a transfer of 22.5 billion pesos, labeled as “urgent,” to the Dos Bocas refinery in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco — one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial pet projects — at a meeting of the board of directors of state-run oil giant
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OPINION By MARK LORENZANA The initial request was reasonable enough. U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Wednesday, July 20, that her office — the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) — had been requesting the Mexican government to address some concerns about Mexico’s energy policies that have been inconsistent with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Those U.S.
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By MARK LORENZANA U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, on Wednesday, July 20, announced that the United States has requested dispute-settlement consultations with the Mexican government under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The consultations relate to certain measures by the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), specifically discriminatory energy policies that have violated provisions in the USMCA. According to
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, July 19, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) used his daily morning press conference to attack the Mexican judges who granted suspensions against the executive’s favored policies and pet megaprojects, falling in line with López Obrador’s preferred strategy of publicly admonishing dissenters of his administration. AMLO took the opportunity to speak out against Specialized
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