By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS One day after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) premiered the new “Who’s Who of Media Lies of the Week” segment of his daily two-hour (or more) press conference, El Universal newspaper (one of the prime targets of his media wall of shame) published its own lies registry on Thursday, July 1, noting that the true
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Tren Maya, spearheaded by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), will reportedly begin operation in December of 2023, said National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur) Director Rogelio Jiménez Pons. At his press conference on the morning of Wednesday, June 9, AMLO signed a contract with the Bombardier-Alstom consortium for the construction of 42 carriages
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By KELIN DILLON With Mexico’s midterm elections fast approaching on Sunday, June 6, instances of violence against politicians has increased in turn, with the shooting of four candidates, the kidnapping of one election hopeful and the torture and execution of a political operator all happening with just days left to go before the vote. Just last week, Etellekt Consultancy revealed
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since he first took office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been pushing to consolidating his institutional power by dismantling independent institutions, mandating constitutional rewrites and discrediting his opponents through unsubstantiated charges of criminal activity. One of the most notable victims of this latter political tactic has been the current governor
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By KELIN DILLON After more than a year-long battle against the covid-19 pandemic, during which many Mexican states were designated by the country’s traffic light color-based risk system as being in the dangerous orange and red zones, finally 29 states have been designated within the yellow and green rankings, meaning a lower risk of coronavirus infection, as of Monday, May
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It marks the unlikely 1862 victory of Mexican forces over French invaders in Puebla and is nearly as much a symbol of the nation’s eternal struggle to maintain its independence as the 16th of September. In the state of Puebla, it is a full-out holiday, with plenty of parades and merrymaking, as well as food
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By KELIN DILLON National Regeneration Movement (Morena) Deputy Saúl Huerta was suspended from his post after the leftist majority party voted on the issue on Sunday, March 25, following accusations of Huerta molesting multiple underage boys. Morena’s legislative bench leader, Ignacio Mier, announced the party’s move in a tweet, and said he would be reporting the suspension to the Chamber
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexico’s annual inflation rate reached 6.05 percent in the first quarter of 2021, its highest level since December 2017, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). In a report issued on Thursday, April 22, the Inegi said that the National Consumer Price Index (INPC) registered a 6.05 percent annual variation in the first half
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Vaccine Chaos The covid-19 vaccine rollout in Mexico, which began in December of last year, has been chaotic, to say the least, with allegations of empty syringes, vaccine hoarding, preferential administration for government workers and political maneuvering. Currently, the government is dishing up a hodgepodge of both one-dose and two-dose vaccines (some internationally verified, some not) from
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS INE Tells AMLO to Respect Democratic Process Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his bosom buddy Félix Salgado Macedonio just don’t know how to take “no” for an answer. After Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) banned Salgado Macedonio from running for governor of the Pacific state of Guerrero as AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena)
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