By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a scathing review of the Mexican president’s first two years in office, the highly acclaimed El Universal daily newspaper this weekend offered a point-by-point breakdown of some of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) most prominent failures, on the eve of his second State of the Nation Address, slated for Tuesday, Dec. 1. AMLO,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS If there remains any doubt as to whether or not Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has assumed dictatorial powers, his blatant use of “trial by president” should be proof enough for anyone with even the slightest knowledge of how a democracy is supposed to work. Let me be very clear: The fact that AMLO has
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Critics of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) wasted no time after his 45-minute Informe de Gobierno (State of the Nation Address) on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to attack his annual report as “false,” “misleading” and “delusional.” In the address — the second in the president’s six-year term — AMLO congratulated himself and his leftwing administration for
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By RICARDO CASTILLO This is the summer storm season for Mexico, so talking about yet another up-and-coming tempest – and not in a teapot – is not only normal, but also routine. The one storm I want to deal with today is the current drafting process of the 2021 Economic Package that Mexican Treasury Secretary Arturo Herrera is in the
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Mexico’s Republican Austerity Cutbacks
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In yet another of his baffling political sleights of hand, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, July 31, somehow managed to convince his adoring hordes of blind followers that a 0.1 percent growth rate for the second quarter of 2019 – which, in fact, confirmed that the country is in a state of economic
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The Scraps of AMLO’s Republican Austerity
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Mexico’s Shrinking Public Health System
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By RICARDO CASTILLO How the press views the Mexican presidency has definitely changed in more than few ways since Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was sworn into office last December. To begin with, AMLO established from the very beginning of his term his Monday-through-Friday press conferences, which start at 7 a.m. and end when they’re over, ranging in length from
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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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