OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER If the cancellation of the construction of New Mexico City International Airport (NAICM) in Texcoco had devastating effects on the Mexican economy — due to the exorbitant cost (estimated by the government’s own Superior Audit offices as being somewhere between 184 billion pesos and 332 billion pesos) but also because of the dubious signal it
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The democratic political life of Mexico, as in many other Latin American nations, is relatively young. In the last decade, a new chapter began in the construction of Mexican politics after the sudden arrival to the presidency of a newly created party. Breaking through and eventually displacing the parties that historically held political hegemony
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Dec. 1, a group of cartel hitmen used a gas delivery truck to ram into the front gates of Mexico’s Tula prison in the central state of Hidalgo, ultimately freeing nine people, including the leaders of criminal organization “Pueblos Unidos,” though three escapees were later recaptured. Armed with AR-15 rifles, grenade launchers and other weaponry,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite indignant claims to the contrary by verbatim-government-spiel-monger Ana Elizabeth García Vilchis, it turns out that the control tower at Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport does indeed lean. The highly respected trinational architect and structural engineer Axel Belfort confirmed Wednesday, Sept. 22, that the structure has a slope of about 18 centimeters due to alluvial sedimentation
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) formalized his nomination of Delfina Gómez Álvarez as the new head of the Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) on the morning of Monday, Feb. 15. Gómez replaces Esteban Moctezuma Barragán, who is anticipated to be ratified by the Senate Tuesday, Feb. 16, as Mexico’s newest ambassador to the United
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By KELIN DILLON The new Military Air Base (BAM) of the Santa Lucía International Airport was inaugurated on Wednesday, Feb. 10, to mark its construction reaching 50 percent of its completion,with its first fly in by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Mexico’s newest BAM reportedly cost 82.136 billion pesos, including its connection by land to the Mexico City
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The INE Registration Rush Is On The registration of new organizations that want to become Mexican political parties that claim to have complied with all stipulations made by the National Electoral Institute (INE) began over the weekend. The first to file the request was came last Friday, Feb. 21, the Solidarity Encounter Party (PES), on Friday, Feb.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There can be no doubt that with the over 200 press conferences he’s held since being sworn in 10 months ago on Dec. 1, 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has shaken up the old and very rusty and corrupt system of journalism information availability in Mexico. The number of journalistic casualties is high. The
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By RICARDO CASTILLO In mid-July, former Mexican Treasury Secretary Carlos Urzúa, upon presenting his resignation to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), launched a frontal attack against AMLO’s Chief of Staff Alfonso Romo Garza in an interview. “It’s most difficult to understand the type of relationship, ideologically speaking, Romo has with the president,” Urzúa said. “He’s an extreme right-winger.” Urzúa
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Was there or was there not corruption involved in the construction of the now-defunct New International Mexico Airport (NAIM)? Just Monday, July 15, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said there was corruption in many of the already-awarded construction contracts, while Communications and Transportation Secretary (SCT) Javier Jiménez Espriú stated that corruption was not an issue
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