By RICARDO CASTILLO The rumblings of a head-on clash between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) press secretary, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, and journalists could be heard loud and clear since the last week of February. Back then, during a conference at the School for Social and Political Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Ramírez Cuevas announced
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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 In what constituted the first internal rupture of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration, Senator Germán Martínez Cázares, director of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), turned in his resignation on Tuesday, May 21, after denouncing “pernicious interference” from Treasury Secretariat (Hacienda) officials, apparently acting on orders from Treasury Secretary Carlos Urzúa. Martínez Cázares read
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Wherefore art thou, Donald Trump? In reelection limbo, it seems. Over the past two days, the president of the United States has been directing his same old capricious criticism at Mexico, alleging that the United States’ southern neighbor “is doing nothing” to stop the now very dangerous northern flow of desperate migrants from Central American countries. And
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By RICARDO CASTILLO With a stroke of his pen, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, May 20, eliminated tax waivers for big Mexican corporations that they had enjoyed since year 2000. The tax waivers were perfectly legal. They had been awarded by former Presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón, and sustained by Enrique Peña Nieto. In total,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Notwithstanding that he will have completed six months in office come June 1, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to deliver defensive speeches. It is important to remember that during his campaign leading up to his overwhelming July 1 victory, there were countless vicious campaigns against AMLO, accusing him of being the next Hugo Chávez
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican education workers nationwide commemorated Teachers’ Day (Día del Maestros) in many different manners on Wednesday, May15, not excluding expressing their dissatisfaction with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) new education reform, which was fully approved by Congress during the day. AMLO said he’d sign the law immediately so it can be published on Thursday, May 16,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Every May 15, Mexico commemorates Teachers’ Day. But the festivities – celebrated at every school – public or private – by the millions of students, parents, labor unions, communities and government branches, who pamper teachers that day (even if it is just once a year), may turn out in 2019 to be different from what we’ve had
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It was a heyday for all the neoliberal journalists who not only question but will try to tear to pieces any project the still-new administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) comes up with. As informed by Pulse News Mexico last on Friday, May 10, Energy Secretary Rocio Nahle García decided to declare the construction
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It came as no surprise to on Thursday, May 9, when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) declared the bidding for the construction of the new Dos Bocas refinery on the Gulf of Mexico shoreline in the state of Tabasco a deserted tender. Instead, AMLO said in his daily press conference at the National Palace, that
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