OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has repeatedly taken swipes at Cuban-American Senators Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Bob Menéndez during his regular press conferences this month, piling on from criticism lobbed by him at the three in the past. López Obrador has accused the three senators, along with other Cubans living in the
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s ever-more-controversial Tren Maya tourist train project — a 1,500-kilometer railway system imposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) that has been widely condemned for threating both the fragile geography of the country’s Yucatan Peninsula and over half of the region’s indigenous flora and fauna — is now facing yet another obstacle in its completion. The
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexican politics have always been distinguished by their dynamism and unpredictability. Year after year, new political alternatives arise, new players emerge and new ideologies evolve. The centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which for more than seven decades maintained control of the country’s presidency during the 20th century, finally succumbed to a desire for change when
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO U.S. Special Envoy for the Climate Change John Kerry on Tuesday, June 14, called on the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to open the country to private investment in the energy sector. Kerry, who met with AMLO at the National Palace on Tuesday, said that the Joe Biden administration has been working through U.S.
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Between March 21 and April 21, the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) registered a net loss of 22,902,811 pesos, according to Mexican government statistics. During its first 30 days of operation, the air terminal, located in Zumpango, in the State of Mexico (EdoMéx) reported revenues of 308,331 pesos. However, the cost of operating the AIFA during
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO The dust from Mexico’s June 5 gubernatorial elections has not yet settled, but the government’s political opponents are all set for the next round with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena). Last week, the opposition Va por México coalition — composed of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO After months of legal battles and parliamentarian evasion the topic, a Mexico City judge on Friday, June 10, ordered the definite suspension of all bullfighting in the city. Although just one day earlier, another municipal judge had ordered the suspension of a temporary stay on bullfighting in the nation’s capital while a lawsuit challenging its legality proceeded,
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Once again, the the very midst of a surge in covid-19 infections, Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum on decreed a series of illogical and impractical restrictions on the circulation of private vehicles for Wednesday, June 8, due to an environmental contingency. With this order, she sent hundreds of thousands of Mexico City residents scrambling to get
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