By KELIN DILLON On the Sunday, Sept. 19, anniversary of Mexico’s deadly 1985 and 2017 earthquakes, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) raised the country’s flag in Mexico City’s Zócalo at half mast in honor of the natural disasters’ victims. The 8.1 magnitude earthquake in 1985 left more than 20,000 dead, while the 2017 seismic shock resulted in 369 fatalities.
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Sept. 15, the eve of the anniversary of Mexico’s 1810 Independence, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) gave his “grito” to the nation from the balcony of the National Palace in the Historic Center of Mexico City, albeit scaled back due to covid-19 social distancing regulations. Rather than having a large crowd gather at
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By KELIN DILLON On International Women’s Day, Monday, March 8, over 20,000 of Mexico’s women marched throughout Mexico City in planned protests of violence nationwide against women, and the country’s high femicide rate of more than 10 women killed each day, reaching the National Palace, where they rallied against populist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for his apparent
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Bill on Collision Course The bill to “reform labor outsourcing” sent to the Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) last week is definitely heading toward a collision course in Congress. Mexican Labor Secretary Luisa María Alcalde complied the bill with the helping hand of the heads of the Mexican Treasury (Hacienda),
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The attempt by a conservative political group in Mexico to push President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to “resign now” is baffling. The group in question, the National Front to Stop AMLO (Frena), has established a permanent occupation protest in front of the National Palace, where López Obrador lives and governs the country. On a daily basis,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) publicly vowed to resign from office if at least 100,000 people would march against him over the weekend, more than 180,000 Mexicans took to the street on Saturday, Oct. 3, demanding his immediate exit. To verify their numbers, over 130,000 of these protestors officially registered their
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Debt Restructuring Plan The Mexican Treasury and the National Banking and Stocks Commission (CNBV) launched a national debt relief package to help borrowers and banks alike during the covid-19 pandemic-provoked economic crisis. The plan includes a downsizing of the agreed-upon interest rate and reduces the monthly amount borrowers are currently paying. All news arrangement will have to
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Anyone who knows me or reads me on a regular basis knows I am not a great supporter of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aka AMLO. (See my column “A Dictator by Any Other Name,” which ran today, Sept. 14, in Pulse News Mexico.) But just as it is incendiary, inaccurate and manipulative for AMLO to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Chihuahua Governor Seeks Martyrdom In the past two weeks, National Action Party (PAN) Chihuahua Governor Javier Corral has staged two major publicity stunts: First he led a group of 10 state governors to splinter from the National Governors’ Conference (Conago), and then, Immediately afterwards, he permitted a group of farmers to take the federally managed and National
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO Throws Himself a Party Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) attracted over 70,000 cheering fans at Mexico City’s main square, El Zócalo, on Sunday, Dec. 1. They all came to hear him review his first year in office, as well as see how he has managed to comply with 89 of his 100 electoral campaign
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