By KELIN DILLON On the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 8, Mexican Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) Rogelio Ramírez de la O presented Mexico’s 2022 budget plan to the Chamber of Deputies under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), featuring no increase in taxes, increased spending in the health sector, and historical levels of public investment.
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By KELIN DILLON Just over two months before Mexico’s June 2021 midterm elections, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced he would be doubling the pension for the nation’s elderly community gradually, until reaching 6,000 pesos every two months in 2024. AMLO also revealed the minimum age to receive the pension would go down from 68 to 65, expanding
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AMLO’s Pensions Reform
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Jiménez Espriú Resigns After accepting the resignation of Communications and Transportation Secretary (SCT) Javier Jiménez Espriú, Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) announced this week that the new secretary will be Jorge Arganis Díaz Leal. Jiménez Espriú turned in his resignation last week after AMLO announced that all customs houses were going to be managed by
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and Argentina
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eNapoleón Gómez Urrutia, head of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union. Photo: veracruzenlasnoticas.com By RICARDO CASTILLO The wheel of fortune has made a full circle for Mexican Senator Napoleón Gómez Urrutia. In 2006, Gómez Urrutia, then — and still — leader of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union, fled Mexico Canada-bound, charged with a $55 million embezzlement of union funds. Had he
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is not yet president of Mexico, but he’s already indirectly issued his first executive order through the Mexican Senate. On Monday, Nov. 6, his first fully fulfilled campaign promise to strip former presidents of their juicy pension went into effect as Senate President Martí Batres ordered the publication in the Official Gazette of the
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