Timid signs of progress are emerging in talks between the private sector and the Mexican government to forge a compromise on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s controversial plan to tighten state control in the power sector. Mexico’s desire to avoid any conflict with the United States in the North American trade pact has increased pressure […]
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The López Obrador Mayan Train starts the year with setbacks and doubts
The mayan trainthe emblematic work of the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador For the Mexican southeast, 2022 has started between stumbles due to changes in the route and the person in charge of the project, doubts about its delivery on time and complaints from communities. Concerned about the delay of the work, the president appointed […]
López Obrador announces that his government will create a state company to exploit lithium in Mexico
Updated on 02/02/2022 02:12 pm The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, affirmed that his government will create a state company to exploit lithium, a vital mineral for electric car batteries and new technologies. “It has already been decided that lithium is going to be exploited for the benefit of Mexicans, for Mexicans. We […]
López Obrador denies that Mexico is in a recession despite the contraction of the last two quarters
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, denied that the country is in a recession despite the contraction of the last two quarters that left economic growth at 4.8% for 2021, below the 6% expected by the Government. “The economy is growing, there can be no recession if January, this month, is one of […]
The Economist: Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s energy policy will harm Mexico
Mexico’s president takes many of his ideas from the 1960s and 1970s. Back then, Mexico had yet to embrace economic liberalization or democracy, and state-owned energy companies dominated the economy. As a young politician, Andrés Manuel López Obrador watched Pemex, the oil giant created by the nationalization of private companies in the 1930s, spread largesse […]
The umpteenth gaffe by López Obrador about the pandemic after his second contagion
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is crowned as one of the most controversial leaders for his management of the pandemic for his refusal to wear a mask, his mass baths and, now, test positive for COVID-19 after meeting with journalists and minimize the disease. “I woke up hoarse“The Mexican president without a […]
The president of Mexico tests positive for COVID-19 for the second time in almost a year
The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), 68, announced on Monday that he tested positive for COVID-19, for the second time in almost a year, after a test that was carried out this day after appearing flu in his usual daily press conference. “I inform you that I am infected with # COVID19 […]
Future of questioned Mexican president López Obrador will be resolved again at the polls in 2022
Accustomed to an almost eternal electoral campaign since Andrés Manuel López Obrador assumed the Presidency of the country, Mexicans will return to the polls in 2022 to vote in an unprecedented citizen consultation in which they will decide whether the president should resign or remain in office. The exercise, dubbed the mandate revocation consultation and […]
López Obrador attacks Vargas Llosa and says he is “pleased to see his decline”
The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, stated that he is “pleased to see the decline” of the Peruvian Nobel Prize in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa for his support for the Latin American right. “It gave me pleasure to listen, to observe, to verify the decline of Vargas Llosa because they invite him, the world […]
Mexican activist seeks to halt US $ 8.9 billion AMLO refinery
A Mexican opposition activist filed a lawsuit to stop the construction of an $ 8.9 billion oil refinery by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, claiming it is being built on land reserved for environmental protection. The petition for amparo, filed in August, claims that state giant Petróleos Mexicanos is illegally building the Dos Bocas refinery […]