By RICARDO CASTILLO The organized Cinco de Mayo marches in different cities across Mexico on Sunday, May 5, were the first organized protests against the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). There was one in Mexico City that garnered about 15,000 participants, according to figures released by the Mexico City government, and less meaningful ones in Guadalajara and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just in case you are wondering why Monday, March 18, is an official holiday here in Mexico, it is in observation of the 1806 birthday of five-time president Benito Juárez, a national hero, who helped chase the French out of the country, overthrew the Hapsburg-imposed empire of Maximillian I, and restored the republic under a liberal regime
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ninety years ago today, on March 4, 1929, Mexican history took a turn to become the nation it is today. Modern Mexican history began with the foundation of the National Revolutionary Party (PNR), a political organization that would change name in 1940 to the Party of the Mexican Revolution and in 1945 to what it is today
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE Former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. (On Jan. 25, Ambassador Wayne offered a conference on bilateral cooperation in the fields of education, innovation and workforce development at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute’s Innovative Forum. This is a transcript of that presentation.) During my years as
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Monday, Feb. 4, is an official holiday in Mexico. It commemorates (one day early this year) the Feb. 5, 1917, proclamation of the country’s Magna Carta. And whether you see the Monday holiday as a chance to get out of town for a long weekend or just a opportunity to get an early start on that spring cleaning you
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Six Mexican governors from the states most direly affected by gasoline shortages — and which, coincidentally, are also from parties other than President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s left-leaning National Regeneration Movement (Morena) – met with Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Octavio Romero Oropeza, Energy Secretary Rocío Nahle García and Public Safety Secretary Alfonso Durazo Montaño on
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The good news is that by moving the Mexican Army to take over Pemex oil refineries, refined fuels theft stopped almost overnight. The bad news is that, nowadays, the residents of the Guanajuato, Querétaro, Michoacán, Jalisco and State of Mexico (Edoméx) can´t get a liter of green or red gas for their vehicles. Theft stopped, but the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While newly inaugurated Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was busy celebrating his elaborate and elongated, multi-sited inaugural ceremony, entertaining more than 20 foreign heads of state – including the likes of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro (a shining pillar of Latin American democracy, justice and respect for human rights, at its very best), Bolivian President Evo
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The rumblings of the upcoming Constitutional Wars are growing thunderous in Mexico’s cloudy political skies. Over the past two weeks, the group of 12 National Action Party (PAN) governors across the nation are threatening a rebellion against the “dictatorship” of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his majority in both houses of Congress through the National
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Keen insider observers consider that the first gathering of the disperse National Action Party (PAN) at its headquarters in Colonia Del Valle in Mexico City on Saturday, Aug. 10, looked more like a witches’ black sabbath than a political reunion. It became clear that “the spells” to bring “party unity” came from as many as six different
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