The WARNING – Mexico Launches Moon Shot

By Bill Dahl “Mexico launched its first mission “to the moon and beyond” from the previously top-secret, underground,  Auditorio Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez launch site in Querétaro, Mexico. The Gobierno de Mexico, for the first time, publicly acknowledged this clandestine program – one that has been in development for over 15 years. NASA, the U.S. […]

AMLO to send a reform to eliminate autonomous organizations

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared that he will send a reform to eliminate autonomous organizations, such as the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI), the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) and the Federal Economic Competition Commission ( Cofece). On its website, the group Mexicans Against Corruption points out […]

Banxico could ‘adjust’ rates in early 2024

Mexico’s central bank could “adjust” its interest rates by February or March 2024 if inflation continues to drop, board member Jonathan Heath said on Monday, December 4th, adding that a decline in core prices is especially key to hitting inflation targets. In an interview with local station Imagen Radio, Heath said the central bank intends […]

Arizona governor blocks Saudi Arabia from pumping water near the Sonora border

Arizona has taken a stand on irresponsible groundwater use, canceling the lease of the Saudi-owned farm Fondomonte, which had essentially unrestricted access to Arizona water supplies. After the farm violated lease terms, the Associated Press reported, the state determined that Fondomonte would no longer have unchecked access to groundwater for its alfalfa farms and that three more […]

Abducted anti-mining activist is found dead in Jalisco 

Authorities in western Mexico said Sunday they have found the body of anti-mining activist Higinio Trinidad de la Cruz. Prosecutors said De la Cruz’s body was found on a rural road in the state of Jalisco near the border with the neighboring state of Colima. They said de la Cruz appeared to have been shot […]

Claudia Sheinbaum is 21 points ahead of Xochitl Galvez according to polls

Claudia Sheinbaum, the presidential candidate of Mexico’s ruling party, extended her lead over rival Xochitl Galvez in two recent opinion polls for the 2024 election. In a survey by Reforma newspaper carried out in November and published on Tuesday, Sheinbaum came in 21 percentage points ahead of Galvez, compared with 17 points in the outlet’s […]

Mexico’s finance ministry suspended payments to the National Immigration Institute in November

The head of Mexico’s immigration agency has ordered the suspension of migrant deportations and transfers due to a lack of funds amid a record-setting year for migration through the country’s territory. The suspensions were outlined in an agency memo dated Dec. 1 from director Francisco Garduño, whose authenticity was confirmed to the Associated Press by an agency official […]