PULSE NEWS MEXICO In yet another step toward the full militarization of the country (the Army and National Guard are already overseeing more than 30 activities that were, just three years ago, considered the sole domain of civil authorities), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Tuesday, June 7, that the country’s Navy (Semar) has now taken full
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO The two-front legal battle against bullfighting in Mexico was postponed from last week to Thursday, June 9. In essence, a municipal judge has allowed a temporary stay on bullfighting in the nation’s capital to continue while a lawsuit challenging its legality moves forward. In both cases, bullfights, usually held at the 42,000-seat capacity monumental Mexico City’s
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Just eight months after taking office, the mayor of the town of Teopisca, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, Rubén de Jesús Valdez Díaz, was shot dead on Wednesday, June 8, in the Los Altos region of the state, local authorities reported. Valdez Díaz, who in June 2021 won the elections under the Green Party (PVEM),
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OPINION By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE The Mexican presidential race is still two years out, but the gubernatorial races on Sunday, June 5, put the handwriting on the wall, with some pretty indelible ink. In Sunday’s six-state vote, four were won by coalitions of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, and two by coalitions of the opposition parties. Even
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After much hemming and hawing, and trying to use his attendance as a political leverage peck against U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, June 6, announced — finally — that he will not attend the four-day Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, which actually had begun that same
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s state-run Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) announced Monday, June 6, that it is cancelling the Gunaa Sicarú wind farm, after five years of struggling to make it operative while battling protests from local residents. In a statement, the CFE said that the project, which was located in the southern central state of Oaxaca, would be canceled along
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) late Sunday, June 6, issued the preliminary results of the “rapid count” of exit polls in the elections of the states of Aguascalientes, Durango, Hidalgo, Tamaulipas, Oaxaca and Quintana Roo, with little in the way of surprises. According to those results, the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, which was founded by
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Porfirio Muñoz Ledo — a former Mexican ambassador to the United Nations, former federal deputy, former staunch supporter of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), founding member of the left-leading Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), former presidential wannabe and current ambassador to Cuba — said Thursday, June 2, that the AMLO administration is in bed
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO In the eyes of some pundits, the current trend in Mexican elections is the result of a democratic procedure, but for others, the imminent results of the country’s midterm elections on Sunday, June 5, is an ominous path to a return of a one-party system. If all current forecasts are correct, the “awesome threesome” political coalition
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER On Sunday, June 5, World Environment Day, Mexico — once again — will have nothing to celebrate. The fact that the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has decided to complete ignore and override a definitive suspension granted by a federal court’s legal injunction 884/2022 against the works of Section Five of the Tren Maya
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