OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ah, the fickle love of an authoritarian president. When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) loves you, you can do no wrong. His buddy-buddy Félix Salgado Macedonio — who was repeatedly accused of rape, embezzlement and close ties with drug cartels, but still managed to garnish the governorship of the coastal state of Guerrero, albeit
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Based on what is known so far of the new government-sponsored Felipe Ángeles Airport in Santa Lucía, State of Mexico, it will essentially be inoperable due to its poor design, former Mexican air traffic controller María Larriva Sahd warned Wednesday, Dec. 1. “The resign of the (former military) airport will make for longer routes
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By KELIN DILLON In a presidential decree published in Mexico’s Official Gazette of the Federation on Monday, Nov. 22, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) determined all projects and works sanctioned by the nation’s government a matter of national security, drawing widespread criticism toward López Obrador’s continued prioritization of his favored pet projects and subsequent dwindling transparency to the
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Nov. 10, Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and its allies passed the country’s proposed 2022 budget through Congress without any financial reductions, despite the opposition’s request for such, in a 274 to 219 split vote. The move will see 7.08 billion pesos allotted for all of Mexico’s expenditures in the upcoming year, controversially allocating
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Getting to the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport in Santa Lucía from downtown Mexico City could take up to two and a half hours and cost up to 1,839 pesos if you choose to use a private driver platform during peak hours, such as on a Friday payday, according to a report published Monday,
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By KELIN DILLON In response to the Mexican federal government’s proposed budget for 2022, experts across multiple sectors have expressed concern that the steep financial allocations to megaprojects will leave the nation with little maneuvering room should unforeseen contingencies arise. “The budget has little room for maneuvering, and that room that we should use to stimulate the country’s growth has
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By KELIN DILLON On the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 8, Mexican Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) Rogelio Ramírez de la O presented Mexico’s 2022 budget plan to the Chamber of Deputies under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), featuring no increase in taxes, increased spending in the health sector, and historical levels of public investment.
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By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is expected to present Mexico’s 2022 Budget to the nation’s Congress on Wednesday, Sept. 8, the country is not expected to have any significant advances in public spending due to a number of debilitating economic factors brought on by the effects of the year-and-a-half-long covid-19 pandemic. During 2020 and
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By KELIN DILLON Eleven years after its closure, the Mexican federal government has announced its intentions to reopen Mexicana de Aviación for service as a passenger airline, with operations to be based out of the controversial and still-under-construction Santa Lucía airport. Former Mexicana workers who have not yet been liquidated from their posts will be invited back to work with
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been having a bad week. As Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola astutely pointed out in his Wednesday, May 26, column in El Universal daily newspaper, so far this week, AMLO’s so-called Fourth Transformation (4T) national redux has been leveled by a triple political whammy as a perfect storm
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