By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF On its second day of operations, passengers slated to travel from Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) were advised on Tuesday, March 22, that their flights would instead leave out of Mexico City’s Benito Juárez International Airport (AICM). The new airport, which was less than 50 percent operational at its official opening by
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s new, three-runway Felipe Ángeles International Airport is set to open on Monday, March 21, with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador AMLO) doing the ribbon-cutting honors. The airport, one of AMLO’s key vanity megaprojects, will have four confirmed carriers operating, the Mexican lines, Volaris, Viva Aerobus and Aeroméxico, plus the Venezuelan carrier Conviasa, which
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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 ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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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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OPINION By THE WILSON CENTER MEXICO INSTITUTE Given the current political and social panorama in Mexico, there will be three major things to watch for in the months ahead regarding U.S.-Mexico relations: Migration As border apprehensions of undocumented migrants reach record levels, the Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administrations strive to collaborate to reduce the flow and
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OPINION By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Like everything else with an uncertain future, predictions for the year ahead are just that: prognoses that could or could not come to pass. That said, and with no crystal ball in hand, here are four broad predictions that most likely could be agreed upon by most in the Western Hemisphere for 2022: emerging
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is a great defender of the concept of nonintervention in the affairs of other countries … except, when he’s not. Should the country in question be a pseudo-democracy such as Venezuela or Cuba, then he is more than willing to toss his unflinching values of nonintervention out the window
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said Tuesday, Dec. 14, that it is the responsibility of both Mexico and the United States to protest migrants by creating the conditions for economic and social development in Central America. Speaking during an interview with the Mexican daily newspaper El Universal and just 100 days into his
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Detentions of undocumented migrants entering the United States from Mexico ¿reached a record high of 1.7 million this fiscal year, which ended in September, U.S. border authorities said Wednesday, Oct. 20. The unprecedented surge of illegal migrants has created political riffs and humanitarian challenges for the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden, who reversed
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