Mexican Government Plans Investment of 1.168 Trillion Pesos in Electricity and Gas Pipelines
Most of the money goes to generation, plus 140 billion pesos for gas pipelines, since power plants burn about 60% of the country’s natural gas.
News Briefs
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Mexico Asks Mónica Palencia for Neutrality Upon Assuming the Presidency of the OAS Council
The new OAS Council president, born in Durango, was Noboa’s interior minister when Ecuadorian police stormed Mexico’s embassy in Quito in 2024.
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Sheinbaum Signs Decree: Candidates for the Presidency and Governorships Must Be Only Mexican
Dual nationals will have to renounce their other citizenship before registering, starting with the 2028 election.
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Sheinbaum: Official Documents Show the Interventionist Character of U.S. Agencies
Asked about López Obrador’s broadside against Ambassador Johnson, she pointed to the agencies’ own Tlatelolco files but said she must also safeguard diplomacy.
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Mexico’s State Workers’ Social Security Institute Launches 100 Clinics for the Universal Health Service
Open in nine states, they are the first of 500 the ISSSTE will add to a network of 12,750 clinics serving anyone, insured or not, from January 2027.
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Sheinbaum Calls on the Bank of Mexico to Review High Pensions of Its Former Officials
Former governor Guillermo Ortiz and ex-president Ernesto Zedillo are among those collecting pensions of up to 400,000 pesos, above the President’s own salary.
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73,000 Doctors Have Applied for Mexico’s Primary Health Care Clinics Initiative
The clinics will offer free care and 60 basic medicines starting in January, while home visits have already detected more than 568,000 hypertension patients.
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US Ambassador Johnson Acts Like a Meddling Policeman, AMLO Says
In his new book Pueblo, López Obrador calls the revoking of his son’s visa “villainous” and accuses U.S. agencies of fabricating cases with phony evidence.
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Ambassador of Palestine Asks Mexico to Review Companies Linked to Israeli Settlements
The UN has identified 214 companies tied to Israel’s settlements in Palestinian territory, among them the Mexican conglomerate Orbia.
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Mexican VW Workers Weigh Strike as Company Cuts Jobs Globally
After 800 layoffs and a rejected wage offer, the independent union at VW’s Puebla plant, the largest outside Germany, reached a tentative 13.16% deal.
