By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Four days before what it describes as Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “farcical referendum,” the New York-based Americas Quarterly on Thursday, July 28, published a scathing review on the absurdity of the Sunday, Aug. 1, public polling to decide whether to prosecute the country’s former presidents for their alleged misdeeds. In the article, which is
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When the international rating agency Moody’s Analytics downgraded Mexico’s state-run oil giant Petróleos Mexicanos credit again earlier this week — this time to out-and-out “junk” with a “negative outlook” — it should have set alarm bells ringing nationwide as to the country’s credibility with investors and lenders. Moody’s new rock-bottom Ba3 rating — based mostly on the
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Backfire
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Although they have yet to resolve the growing covid, economic and poverty crises back on Earth in their respective countries, six Latin American heads of state — led by Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and Argentina’s Alberto Hernández — announced on Saturday, July 24, the creation of the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (ALCE). The
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since it opened its first restaurant here in Mexico City back in 2014, the Puebla-based Entre Fuegos group has been dedicated to bringing the true tastes of one of Mexico’s most culturally rich and historic states to capital consumers. From that most classic of Pueblan dishes, mole poblano, to deep-fried pelonas stuffed with black beans,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto paid $32 million for the Israeli-developed Pegasus spy program, Santiago Nieto Castillo, the head of Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), reported Wednesday, July 21. Speaking during the morning press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in the National Palace, Nieto Castillo said that this software was
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s hard to tell what kind of weather to expect from day to day during the summer in Mexico. Sure, during a sunny day, the temperature can easily hit the higher 90s spectrum, especially outside the capital and at beach resorts. But then a sudden downpour — it is, after all, the rainy season — can make
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS They currently number less than a dozen worldwide. But the little vaquita porpoise, the world’s rarest marine mammal, was once a common sight in the shallow, turbid waters along the shoreline of Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. The world’s smallest cetacean, the vaquita is native only to Mexico, and the upper Gulf of California is the only place
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When a then-30-year-old Rosario Hernández Jiménez first took a job as a biochemist for the Oaxaca branch of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) back in the early 1990s, she was impressed by the worker benefits her new position included. Not only did the IMSS provide her with full medical insurance (it is, after all, the nation’s
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just 24 hours after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) decried a report in Reforma noting that 56 human rights activists had been killed so far during his presidency as “false” and “a political conspiracy aimed at discrediting his administration,” the government’s own Secretariat of the Interior (Gobernación, or Segob) pointed out that the newspaper’s figures
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