By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) first proposed the ambitious construction of a tourist train that would cross through the southern states of Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Chiapas, Campeche and Tabasco, he said that 90 percent of the financing for the ambition project would come from private sector sources. The remainder of the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … Singapore’s prime minister met with AMLO to discuss his nation’s potential involvement in the Tehuantepec Isthmus project…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … A quick review of the most important news items in Mexico over the last few days…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The candidates of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO)National Regeneration Movement (Morena) for the states of Baja California and Puebla, Jaime Bonilla Valdez and Miguel Barbosa Huerta, respectively, walked away with resounding victories over their competitors for the gubernatorial races on Sunday, June 2. In Baja California, a state that had been governed by the conservative
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The past six months have been hectic for Mexico and its Congress as they worked to approve several constitutional amendments that will help ease the nation’s transition into what President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) calls the Fourth Transformation, now popularly mentioned as 4T. Apparently – and this is an educated guess only – AMLO has plans
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The next round of elections in Mexico is just around the corner. slated for Sunday. June 2. There will be political activity on different basis in six different states. Clearly, the attention will be most focused in the states of Puebla and Baja California. where elections for governor will be attracting the bulk of attention. They are,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Like whirlwind, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took the nation by storm in December, outlining the shape of things to come in Mexico during 2019. AMLO was anything but contemplative during his first month in office. To begin with, he held 20 hour-long press conferences to explain either what he had done the the day before or what he
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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 Last week, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto went on an unprecedented spree of interviews with three major television stations (Televisa, Imagen and TVAzteca). He was also interviewed by the leftist daily La Jornada and other newspapers. But should the president be doing this nowadays? There are a number of reasons he is launching this media blitz. First off,
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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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