PULSE NEWS MEXICO After more than three years of her detainment without bail — and just hours after the arrest of former Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam for his alleged ordering of the disappearances of 43 Ayotzinapa education school students in 2014 — Mexico’s Federal Attorney General Office¿ (FGR) late Friday, Aug. 19, ordered the immediate release of former Secretary
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By KELIN DILLON According to reports from Sunday, Aug. 14, five men arrested for involvement in Thursday’s lethal attack on Ciudad Juárez, in which at least 11 people were killed, were sentenced to preventative detention for no more than two years in prison as they continue to be investigated for the crimes of attempted homicide and damages. The accused individuals
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By KELIN DILLON On Aug. 3, 15 Mexican miners were trapped in a Coahuila coal mine after accidentally breaching a nearby water-filled well while working on the site; though five managed to escape, 10 still remain within the mine without any contact with the outside world and their chance of survival diminishing with every passing day. Now, the Mexican authorities
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By MARK LORENZANA Javier Coello Trejo, former lawyer of Emilio Lozoya Austin — the disgraced former CEO of Mexican state-run oil giant Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), who is currently in custody on corruption charges — said on Tuesday, June 28, that he will file a lawsuit for moral damages against Mexican Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero. On Thursday, June 23,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A federal judge on Thursday, May 19, dealt Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) a major judicial setback by ordering the dismissal of a case filed against three lawyers by fellow lawyer Juan Ramón Collado accusing them of extortion. Collado, who previously served as former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s most trustworthy legal advisor, is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just one month after Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) dismissed Federal Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero’s unfounded case against his in-laws for the alleged “negligent homicide” of his 82-year-old brother, who died in hospital from a heart attack stemming from a chronic heart condition in 2015, Julio Scherer Ibarra, former legal adviser to President
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Four members of the U.S. Senate, led by Bob Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, April 6,stating that there is mounting evidence that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is attacking the
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Alejandro Gertz’s War on his In-Laws
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By KELIN DILLON After nearly two years behind bars after being accused of negligent homicide by Mexico’s Attorney General (FGR) – and the accused’s uncle – Alejandro Gertz Manero, the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) granted Alejandra Morán Cuevas her plain and simple release into freedom on Monday, March 28, annulling the warrant for her arrest ordered against her and her
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By KELIN DILLON After 522 days of imprisonment in Mexico’s Santa Martha Acatitla prison, Alejandra Cuevas Moran – the niece of Mexican Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero – is one step away from securing her release from lockup, as the country’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) could potentially order her immediate release in a hearing scheduled for Monday, March
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