By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS There’s no debating the fact that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) knows which side of his bread is buttered on (and which side to keep on buttering). As his popularity continues to wane due to his disastrous mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic, his head-strong insistence on pouring seemingly endless funds into a moribund state-run energy
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that Mexico still ranks in fourth place in the number of covid-19 deaths (after the United States, India and Brazil), President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration has committed far more financial resources to his pet Tren Maya tourist train than to public health efforts to curb the pandemic, according to
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador formally apologized to the nation’s indigenous Maya people on Tuesday, May 4, for the multiple abuses committed against them over the course of the last five centuries, but the local Maya were having none of it. Speaking in a ceremonial event attended by both Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei and selected pro-government
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s expanding military, under the lead of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has seen its trust increased by 32.4 percent already in the first quarter of 2021 since the end of 2020, according to a report published in Reforma. Figures show the Military Equipment Administration and Payment Trust (Fidape) received 15.8 billion pesos in funding just
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s controversial Tren Maya tourist train, a pet project of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) that both national and international environmentalists have repeatedly warned could destroy over half of the Yucatan’s fragile species, will also leave more than 3,000 mostly indigenous Mexican families homeless, according to report published in El Universal newspaper on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues with his quest to rewrite the Mexican Constitution, undo the energy reform implemented by his predecessor, grasp control of all three powers of government and stack the Congress with even more of his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) cohorts, the National Electoral Institute (INE) is
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS During his daily bully pulpit spiel on Monday, April 19, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was asked by one of his faithful followers whether he considered the proposed extension of Supreme Court Chief Justice Arturo Zaldívar’s term of office a potential violation of the Mexican Constitution. Not surprisingly, AMLO, who “suggested” (read, “mandated”) the extension
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By KELIN DILLON Over 2,000 micro- to medium-sized construction companies in Mexico are at risk of closure following the Mexican government’s repeated decisions to entask the country’s military with construction projects. The Mexican army has been given jurisdiction over the building of the Santa Lucía Airport and the Tren Maya, the construction of Bienestar Bank branches and the remodeling of
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By KELIN DILLON Following the announcement of Mexico’s military being bestowed full control over Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) pet project Tren Maya, including all of its profits, concerns have been raised about the extent of the military’s grasp over the country. The military currently handles 27 areas that are civilian in nature. Three days after the Tren
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By KELIN DILLON All proceeds from the Tren Maya, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s longtime pet project, will be given to Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), announced general director of the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur) Rogelio Jiménez Pons on Monday, March 15. The tourism official revealed to El Financiero that the complete 1,500-odd kilometers
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