Mexico News Today Wednesday, May 26, 2021

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2021

Candidates in crosshairs: 1 killed in Guanajuato, 1 kidnapped in Michoacán Alma Barragán, a mayoral hopeful in Moroleón, was murdered Tuesday. Hours earlier, Michoacán candidate Omar Plancarte was taken. FULL STORY

US proceeds with downgrade to Mexico's aviation safety rating The Federal Aviation Administration reassessed Mexico's air travel supervisory agency at Category 2, a level it shares with countries like Pakistan and Thailand. FULL STORY

Election observers issue alert over violence and illegal campaign funding A Canada-based organization has raised concerns about attacks on politicians and illicit money in the lead-up to voting day on June 6. FULL STORY Opposition questions 1.7mn peso loan to AMLO’s brother According to El Universal newspaper, a federal bank granted José Ramiro López Obrador the questionable funding in 2019 while he worked in the Tabasco government. FULL STORY Chief justice’s meetings with AMLO violate code of ethics Arturo Zaldívar has met twice with President López Obrador in the past month to discuss electricity and hydrocarbon reform. FULL STORY National Action Party politician files defamation complaint against AMLO The former lawmaker, known as 'El Jefe Diego,' accused the president of making a mockery of the law and scorning those he governs. FULL STORY AMLO: election fairness rules prevent federal government from attending to nation's drought emergency  President López Obrador said his government cannot react to the dire water shortages — the worst in 30 years — because anti-electioneering rules prevent it from doing so. FULL STORY Cancer victims’ parents reproach AMLO for dismissing their claims of shortages 'Mr. President ... with active indignation, we say to you that you lie...' they said in a statement rejecting President López Obrador's assertions that the government has ended previous medication shortages. FULL STORY OPINION When narcos are choosing our politicians, what solutions do we have left? This bloody election season, it's clear that organized crime seeks to control most of Mexican society. Has it become impossible to stop, Sarah DeVries asks. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE Cyclist on 4-year (and counting) trip to Alaska currently in Mexico When the information technology worker first decided to bike from his Uruguay hometown to the U.S.'s 49th state, friends thought he'd be back in a month, Joseph Sorrentino writes. FULL STORY Lack of irrigation water puts Chihuahua on brink of social and economic crisis The shortage has caused 90% crop losses in some communities and rising food prices. "We are going to have a serious social problem that we hope will not become a problem of insecurity,” federal lawmaker Mario Mata warned. FULL STORY Deer Park refinery will help Mexico achieve fuel self-sufficiency by 2023: AMLO The Texas facility, now fully owned by Pemex, will also be paid off in full within 2–3 years, President López Obrador promised. FULL STORY Construction continues at archaeological site despite stop-work order An international council on monuments has warned that if the illegal building going on at an outlying section of Teotihuacán isn't stopped, UNESCO could strip the ancient site of its World Heritage status. FULL STORY President says replacing governor won’t mean change in bank’s economic policy President López Obrador promised that the replacement of Alejandro Díaz de León when his term ends won't alter policy significantly at Mexico's central bank. FULL STORY 250 bodies to be exhumed in search for missing in Coahuila A mass disinterment of people presumed to be missing has begun in Torreón at 161 common graves. FULL STORY ADVERTISEMENT OPINION Business seeks to revive Mexico’s Bajío region as a manufacturing hub From its silver mines of the 1500s to its modern high-tech factories, this central region of the country has long been a success story, Jude Webber writes. FULL STORY MEXICO LIFE When the medical diagnosis is given in Spanish, that’s when the fun begins In for a checkup demanded by insurance, writer Joseph Sorrentino visited a helpful Mexican doctor who may have told him he was very sick — or not. FULL STORY

∙ Students in Mexico City protest proposed return to in-person classes ∙ Candidates for mayor under attack in Guerrero and Tamaulipas ∙ Protest in La Paz after US citizen fires flare gun at fisherman ∙ Head-on collision kills 9 in San Luis Potosí