By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Dec. 22, the U.S. government approved Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos’ (Pemex) $596 million purchase of Shell’s Texas refinery Deer Park, with the acquisition planned to be finalized within the first few weeks of 2022. “The purchase shows a good relationship between the United States and Mexico,” said Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo
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By KELIN DILLON As the blowback from the ongoing worker’s strike of Mexico’s under-construction Dos Bocas refinery over labor abuses continues, Secretary of Energy Rocío Nahle has come under fire by members of her very own party, the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena), for her purported role in covering up the dispute. After a violent clash at the facility, which
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By KELIN DILLON A massive extra 68 billion pesos have been given to the construction of Mexico’s controversial Dos Bocas refinery in Tabasco during the first semester of 2021 — more than what was given to the country’s health sector during the same time period despite the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Data from Mexico’s Secretariat of Finance (SHCP) revealed the initially
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By KELIN DILLON Environmentalists are lashing out against Mexico’s oil-friendly practices after the appearance of a massive fireball in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, July 2, which was caused by a leak in one of state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos’ (Pemex) pipelines through the area. The massive fire “demonstrates the serious risks that the fossil fuel model in Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Thugs in Uniforms Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) ever-expanding army of National Guard (GN) troops has been flexing its muscles in a violent show of force against civilians, proving once again that unbridled military power is a threat to the nation and the Mexican people alike. In just the last month alone, members of AMLO’s
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By RICARDO CASTILLO One thing that sets Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) apart from his predecessors is the high number of women in his cabinet. Out of the bunch, three are being singled out by columnists who are flying out trial balloons depicting them under a group name, las halconas, or female hawks or falcons. Truth be told,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexicans are divided between two opinions: One, those who have faith in the “profound economic model transformation” slowly but surely being promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), and two, those AMLO calls “conservative hypocrites,” who are presently even denouncing the Mexican democratic system as nothing less than a scourge for having elected this populist dude
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Definitely the outstanding image in Mexico for the week July 8-12 was the stone-cold face of Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appointed him the government’s new finance secretary. Herrera Gutiérrez looked as if he was attending his own funeral. The fact is that a lot of political pundits noticed the grave gesture, that
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO On Sunday, June 2, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) flagged the initiation of the construction of a new oil refinery at the Tabasco double-cove port known as Dos Bocas. Unlike in the case of his initial move to bring an end to the massive fuel theft that was going on at the state-owned company Petróleos
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