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Reform to hydrocarbons law is frozen

The reform to the hydrocarbons law was suspended indefinitely after two federal judges granted the first definitive suspensions with general effects against said legislation, which was published on May 4. With the resolutions of the First and Second District Courts in Administrative Matters, Specialized in Economic Competition, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, by Rodrigo de la Peza and Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro, the effects of articles 51, 57 and 59 Bis will be stopped indefinitely. It should be noted that Article 57 empowers the Government to carry out the tem porary occupation, intervention or suspension of any permit granted under the Hydrocarbons Law in addition to contracting Pemex and allowing it to take control of the facilities. While the transitory articles allow the authorities to revoke permits that as of May 5, did not meet the requirements requested by the Ministry of Energy (Sener) on the storage of hydrocarbons. The same for the fourth and sixth transitory articles of
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Tragedy in subway train in Mexico City

The night of may 3, 2021 is going to be remembered due a tragedy in Mexico, a structure of the subway train collapsed and left tens of injured people and the firsts official reporsts speak at least 15 deaths. There are not so much information about the case until the moment, but three years ago, the newspaper El Universal reported the neighbors were afraid about the structure, because it had several damage.  In that moment, the citizens said they were afraid of the structure could collapse and fall down.  Well, this night, it happened. Below is the link to the El Universal's article: https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/sociedad/vecinos-de-tlahuac-temen-que-colapse-l12 And this is the video:

The water, a crisis is coming

In the following months there could be scheduled supply cuts for the Monterrey metropolitan area, due to the low level of the Cerro Prieto dam and an adverse forecast in terms of rain in the short term. Even Agua y Drenaje de Monterrey (AyDM, the state company for the water administration) raised the tone of its awareness campaigns on the care of the resource; but, in the words of Gerardo Garza, general director of the organization, the efforts have been unsuccessful. "The situation is very critical, 15 percent of the water that reaches the city comes from the Cerro Prieto source, and it will stop pumping in 50 - 55 days," he explained. And he added that with the connection works with other water sources, and whose value is 30 million pesos, the life of the dam could be extended another 60 days. However, he explained that if it were not for these extraordinary tasks, as well as a change in the operational policy of water distribution, which implies taking less liquid from thi

Second Chapter: The Vandalism

The saturday 9th of april, in San Pedro, Nuevo León, MX early in the morning, in the streets of the city some walls appeared vandalized with texts about of a supposed criminal gang. But, from the beginning the situation looked strange, because that is not the habitual form a criminal gang works. Those texts said: CDN, C. D. N and Aquí andamos (We are here). The abbreviations CDN is a referencia of the Cártel del Noreste, a criminal gang that works in the mexican northeast. But, today, El Norte newspaper published an article about the case: The official report concludes that the vandalized houses and cars it was not a criminal gang action; and informed the investigation continues. As will be remembered, is an electoral year in Nuevo León, and San Pedro is one of the most important cities in the country.

Cabeza de Vaca

Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca is a mexican governor of the Tamaulipas state, he is better known as Cabeza de Vaca; his last surname. He faces a judicial process, because the Fiscalía General de la República (FGR), which is the major attorney organism in Mexico, denounced him for money laundering, operations with resources of illicit origin and organized crime. But, the trial has been like a wheel of fortune; it means, while the FGR is looking for the outrage of his charge as Tamaulipas’s governor; Cabeza de Vaca has played his game . In the first movement, the FGR wants the outrage, because if it doesn’t happen, the trial is going to end in the Tamaulipas’s court; and it means the dead of the trial and a triumph for Cabeza de Vaca. So, that’s the reason why the FGR is looking for to bring the case to the federal courts, where have a wide room for maneuver.

A 'showy' crime story

First Act . On February 26, the mayor of the municipality of San Pedro in (Nuevo León, México. The richest city in Latinamerica), Miguel Treviño, told the media that it was likely that in the following days a "showy" violent event would occur in the town. Second Act. 17 days after Treviño's statements, in the morning, the strongest opposition candidate, Mauricio Fernández (former mayor of San Pedro on several occasions), appeared in an interview on Multimedios Televisión, where he criticized the management of security in the municipality . Third Act . Two bodies appeared inside a vehicle in one of the most crowded and 'showy' places in the municipality, the Rufino Tamayo Park. The bodies appeared in the afternoon, before 7:00 p.m. The first reports indicated that the bodies allegedly had traces of violence, and their faces were covered with plastic bags, and they also presented a certain degree of decomposition. The next day, it was learned that the bodies of the

Lopez Obrador's Dream | Bye, bye Deschamps | The framing - M E X I C A N W A V E

Lopez Obrador's Dream     The mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador had a dream (or a nightmare, call it whatever you want); in that dream, the Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE, is the power production government company) was the only power producer; and all the mexican people have the access to shipper energy services. But, in the other side, there are a malicious and penny pinchers businessmen that want to control all that. So, in the dream, Lopez Obrador thought how to combat these people's enemy, then it was when he created the reform for the Ley de la Industria Eléctrica (Electrical Industry Law). In this law, there are so much privileges for CFE, so the private companies argue that is a regulation that encourages the unfair competition. What's more distintivo the green energy production, and they think the law is going to generate higher costs in the energy services and products for the people. Only six days after the probation of the reform of Electrica