By KELIN DILLON After striking union workers reached the front steps of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, Dec. 14, legislators suspended their in-progress session and fled the scene as the workers attempted to enter the plenary hall. The dissenting laborers were acting in protest of the administration of the Chamber of Deputies’ Dec. 13 decision to remove income tax
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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 After Mexico’s new nationwide government-imposed limits on the cost of liquified petroleum (LP) gas and the ensuing strikes from the country’s gas unions, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) during his daily press conference on Wednesday, Aug 4, said he will potentially file complaints against any parties who do not respect the new price caps and utilize
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Baseball aficionado President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was pitched two unrelated labor strikes in a row on the week of Jan. 21. One was in the state of Michoacán concerning teachers, and the other was in the border city of Matamoros launched by maquiladora (in-bond assembly) industry workers. Both strikes were swerving curves that smoked right past batting
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