By RICARDO CASTILLO A Divided Women’s Movement On the eve of Mexico’s March 9 feminist work stoppage by all the women who want to participate, the cadre of invisible “collectives” have been joined by an apparent “fifth column,” the anti-abortionists, who now claim that this movement “underrates” women. (In military terminology, a fifth column is an infiltration of enemy troops
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Peña Nieto Not Under Investigation What? Fake news in the Wall Street Journal? You bet ya! This past week, the WSJ published a news item claiming that Mexican Fiscal General Alejandro Gertz Manero had evidence that corruption in the Pemex-related Emilio Lozoya Austin case reached to the highest level, inferring that former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Lozoya Nabbed in Malaga Former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya Austin was finally found and arrested in Malaga, Spain, by the Spanish police. The news was broken personally in radio interviews on Wednesday, Feb. 12, by Fiscal General Alejandro Gertz Manero. “It was a long pilgrimage (to track down Lozoya Austin) with the arrest warrant we
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Constitution Day Though officially sessions for both houses of the Mexican Congress kicked off on Saturday, Feb. 1, the first gathering to discuss legal issues will be on Mexico’s Constitution Day, Feb. 5. By now, 14 months after he was sworn in, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has most of his campaign legislative agenda laid
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It may be money for the Mexican democratic dream, but a lot of people are wondering if it really does have to be that expensive. On Wednesday, Aug. 21, the National Electoral Institute (INE) requested 12.5 billion pesos for its 2020 overall national operations from Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies. The figure does not include the 5.4 billion
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Do you remember Jose Antonio Meade Kuribreña? In case you don’t, let me tell you that he was the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate handpicked by former President Enrique Peña Nieto to run during the 2018 electoral campaign. Meade finished third in that race. Since then, Meade has seldom been heard from or about. But on
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The financial-political scandal in Mexico that is threatening to become a perfect storm is nothing new. It’s been in the making for 28 years now, but in the bat of an eye this week, two arrest warrants were issued by the Fiscal Attorney General of the Republic. That’s what this story is about. On Tuesday,
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