AMLO Dissuades Concerns About Potential Election Blackouts
The federal executive’s statements come following a series of blackouts across several Mexican states due to the country’s ongoing heatwave.
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CFE Power Cuts Increase Under AMLO Administration
The average duration of blackouts has reportedly increased more than sixfold since López Obrador assumed office in 2018
Read moreAn End of Power
History has a way of repeating itself
Read moreFederal Electricity Commission Turns Off Lights in Mexico City’s Lincoln Park
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mauricio Tabe, mayor of Mexico City’s Miguel Hidalgo municipality and member of the conservative opposition party National Action Party (PAN), denounced Mexico’s state-run Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) on Twitter early Wednesday, Nov. 30, claiming that the CFE had used false claims of outstanding bills to justify the power cut. Tabe said that all electric bills for the
Read morePolitical Redeemers and their Followers
OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Enlightened leaders always tend to self-proclaim their moral superiority, and throughout history, the consequences of this delusion have been terrible. In his 1919 conference “Politics as a Vocation,” German socialist Max Weber pointed out the similarity between the revolutionaries of his time and the millenarian sects of the 17th century that had announced the imminent arrival
Read moreLessons Learned from the Tex-Mex Electrical Outages
By RICARDO CASTILLO While here in Mexico, President Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, March 3, was celebrating the 58 to 48 passage (with 22 abstentions) of his electricity reform bill the night before by the Senate, back in Texas the state government was busy issuing walking papers to nonprofit Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot) CEO Bill Magness, considered
Read moreSnowfall Causes Blackouts in Northern Mexico
By KELIN DILLON Power outages on the morning of Monday, Feb. 16, left 4.7 million Mexican homes in the northern Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, Chihuahua, and Tamaulipas without lights or energy, following freezing temperatures that even led to snowfall in parts of the country. Outages also afflicted the United States in states bordering Mexico, like Texas, where 2.8
Read moreNational Guard Bill Heads For the Senate
By RICARDO CASTILLO Even though it’s been approved by the Chamber of Deputies, and will surely be fast-tracked by the Mexican Senate, the integration of the National Guard (GN) remains a farfetched endeavor. The approved bill provides for the GN to section off Mexico into 266 different commands. Initially, the National Guard will be made up of as many as 50,000 officers from the
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