By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) changed its mind at the last minute — as it has in the past — leaving former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya still in prison on Tuesday, April 12, after having negotiated his release in exchange for returning $10.7 million to the state-run oil giant. Late Monday, April 11, Mexican Federal
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya on Wednesday, Jan. 26, was denied a habeas corpus injunction against being held without bail and against any further warrants for his arrest. Lozoya, who has been held in prevention detention (jail without the possibility of bail) in the North Penitentiary since Nov. 3 on charges of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that he is already being detained without bail on corruption charges linked to the international Odebrecht oil scandal, Emilio Lozoya, the former head of Mexico’s state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) was ordered yet again to detention without the possibility of bail on Wednesday, Nov. 10, for his alleged defrauding of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya — who is supposed to be under house arrest while awaiting a trial for alleged embezzling and corruption — was photographed on Saturday, Oct. 9, dining at the upscale Hunan Chinese restaurant in Mexico City’s posh Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec. The photographs, taken by columnist Lourdes Mendoza of El Financiero
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since he first took office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been pushing to consolidating his institutional power by dismantling independent institutions, mandating constitutional rewrites and discrediting his opponents through unsubstantiated charges of criminal activity. One of the most notable victims of this latter political tactic has been the current governor
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A full two and a half months after being extradited back to Mexico from Spain, Alonso Ancira, owner of the Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) steel foundry plant in Monterrey, Nuevo León, left prison late Monday, April 19, in a black G-500 Mercedes Benz pickup truck. The businessman, who made no comment to the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) announced on Wednesday, Feb. 3, that the government of Spain had extradited disgraced Mexican businessman Alonso Ancira Elizondo back to Mexico that very same day. Ancira was transferred from Palma de Mallorca jail early on Wednesday morning onto an official Mexican aircraft and was expected to arrive the same
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Pandemic Politicizing Contrary to what is happening in the United States, where the White House is downsizing the extent of covid-19 and the disparaging the image of the country’s coronavirus czar, Anthony Faucet, here in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, July 14, reiterated his support Health Undersecretary and chief epidemiologist Hugo Lopez-Gatell. AMLO’s
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By RICARDO CASTILLO What came as a shock to the Mexican political system last Friday, July 5, was not that the nation’s fiscal (attorney) general managed to get a judge to issue him yet another arrest warrant against former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya Austin, but that the arrest warrant also included his mother, wife and sister, Gilda Austin,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Just when former President Enrique Peña Nieto thought Mexicans had forgotten him forever and ever, his name hit back in the news bigtime again on Tuesday, June 18, when a Mexico City daily ran a leaked report linking him to a corruption investigation that occurred during his 2012-2018 shift in office. The news item stated that the
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