OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO With four out of six state races for governor cleared, Mexico’s upcoming June 5 election is left to solve two main frays at the booths: Tamaulipas and Durango. Most pundits and polls agree that up ahead of schedule, the conservative National Action Party (PAN) will retain the central Mexican state of Aguascalientes, while the once-almighty centralist
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A recent vote at Mexico’s lower house Chamber of Deputies denying President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) the approval of his electricity reform left the impression that the country is politically “polarized,” that is, evenly divided in two political factions. AMLO’s supporters at the chamber missed the two-thirds majority goal they needed to pass the reform, which
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As inflation in Mexico continues to surge month-after-month, hitting 7.45 percent in March, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Tuesday, April 26, the framework of his plan to reduce price increases by forming a pact with private-sector producers and distributors. In his proposed plan to control the cost of eggs, milk, oil,
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The parliamentary defeat on Sunday, April 17, of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform bill was not only a bruising blow for the Mexican president’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, but it was also a chance for the Mexican people to settle some outstanding score within the country’s so-called Green Party. In the
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, April 20, Mexican legislator and president of the Political Coordination Board of the Senate, Ricardo Monreal – the namesake for one of in-power political party the National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) controversial pieces of legislation – called on his fellow party members during Wednesday’s plenary session to “stop the lynching campaign” against opposition parties for
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just two days after the congressional defeat of his controversial electricity reform bill — which would have prioritized state-run carbon-based energy sources over clean private-sector sources — Mexico’s Senate on Tuesday, April 19, passed Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “Plan B” lithium bill as a political consolation prize for the president. The new bill, which will ensure
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Deputy Carlos Miguel Aysa Damas’ political suicide on Easter Sunday, April 17, may have turned out to be all in vain. After having “sold out” to Andrés Manuel Loóez Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morean) party by voting in favor of the president’s controversial electricity reform bill — which would
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a sign that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) unbridled political power is finally beginning to wane, opposition members of the country’s lower house Chamber of Deputies mustered enough votes on Sunday, April 17, to block the passage of his controversial electricity reform bill, which would have prioritized contaminating carbon-based energy sources from state-run entities
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The fact that members of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party have no qualms about bending — and even breaking — the law in order to achieve their goals is nothing new. We already saw this evidenced in how blatantly the party violated electoral laws in order to promote
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Failing to point out, protest or become indignant at the illegal behavior and actions of public servants, which we had come to believe was a thing of the past, is the new norm that is giving credence to the thesis of authoritarian and caudillista regression in Mexico, supported by an exacerbated populism expressed to describe
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