By KELIN DILLON A total of five families from the Central Asian countries of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have reportedly been held at the Cancun airport’s immigration for more than a month, with officials demanding $3,000 per person for their release. After officials suspected their passports and travel documentation were falsified, the immigration officers then reportedly claimed the families were lying
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By KELIN DILLON After Mexico’s air travel was downgraded by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from a category one to category two, which posed significant threats to the country’s income from tourism, the nation has reportedly continued as before with its less-than-ideal practices instead of fixing the issues that caused the re-rank in the first place, resulting in even
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Tax Administration Service (SAT) is out to squeeze taxpayers and increase its collections through a plan to conduct more audits of potentially delinquent contributors, according to a report published in Reforma newspaper on Thursday, May 6. At the end of the first quarter, the SAT collected 112 billion pesos through audits or reviews
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Work at Mexico’s controversial new Santa Lucia airport field is coming along right on track, according to government sources. Of course, the field in question is not Santa Lucía’s airfield, but its baseball field. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who has made no secret of his personal penchant for the sport (even though the majority
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By KELIN DILLON The construction of Mexico’s new Santa Lucia airport has already registered 54 accidents, including workers being run over by cars, crushed between pipes, and drilling holes in their hands, adding to the country’s bevy of flight-related problems. Mexico has already seen quite a bit of controversy over the redesign of Mexico City’s airspace to accommodate the Santa
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once famously quipped, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” The point that Disraeli was trying to make is that the selective use of numbers can bolster any argument and disguise any truths to accommodate a political agenda. Nowhere is that persuasive power of carefully culled figures more
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) backtracked on the numbers released in it’s 2019 public audit of the New Mexico International Airport’s (NAIM) cancellation, citing inconsistencies in methodology, alleging the real cost to be lower than previously reported. The ASF’s initial audit found the NAIM’s cancellation cost 331.9 billion pesos, 232 percent more than estimated by
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By KELIN DILLON The new Military Air Base (BAM) of the Santa Lucía International Airport was inaugurated on Wednesday, Feb. 10, to mark its construction reaching 50 percent of its completion,with its first fly in by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Mexico’s newest BAM reportedly cost 82.136 billion pesos, including its connection by land to the Mexico City
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Electoral Fraud at the INE? On Friday, Feb. 7, the 11 councilors of Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) carried out the reelection of its executive secretary to serve for six more years, with eight votes in favor and three against. The reaction in Mexico to the surprise reelection of Jacobo Molina and against INE president Lorenzo Córdova
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By RICARDO CASTILLO One day yes and the next day no. Again we’re getting bombarded with news of judges ordering the cancellation of the still-to-be-built Santa Lucía Airport located just northwest of the Teotihuacán pyramida, to the north of Mexico City. As of last week, 80 suits had been filed on environmental grounds stating that the damage the airport would
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