By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Julio Scherer Ibarra, former legal advisor to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), accused Federal Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero and Senator and former Interior Secretary (SeGob) Olga Sánchez Cordero on Saturday, March 19, of plotting against him to “soil his name” with a dissemination of misinformation campaign. In an interview published in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a year and a half behind bars without bale or a trial, and as a result of unsubstantiated allegations against her by her uncle, Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, Alejandra Cuevas Morán received word from the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) on Monday, March 14, that she will remain imprisoned at Santa
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, March 8 – International Women’s Day – the niece of Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero, Ana Paula Castillo Cuevas, presented an “expansion” of her request for her uncle’s impeachment to the Chamber of Deputies, alleging that her relative had committed gender-based violence. Recently leaked audio tapes of Gertz’ telephone conversations
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In what was seen by many women in Mexico as a blatant affront to their cause to end the country’s surging levels of femicide and gender-based violence, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) marked Tuesday, March 8, International Women’s Day (M8), locked in the National Palace, congratulating himself for his political accomplishments (like, for example, more
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After audio recordings of Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero were leaked on YouTube on Friday, March 4, showing him plotting with Federal Prosecutor Juan Ramos López regarding the ongoing “case” against Gertz Manero’s 94-year-old sister-in-law and 69-year-old niece, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) once again expressed his unflinching support of the controversial
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OPINION By THÉRÊSE MARGOLIS In what might finally be the beginning of the end of the judicial terror imposed by Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, the recordings of two phone conversations were leaked on YouTube on Friday, March 4, proving (once again) Gertz Manero’s direct intervention into judicial cases in which he has a vested interest. In the recordings,
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Feb. 28, Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) finally decided upon a date to discuss the case of Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero’s deceased brother, Federico Gertz, whose death has caused has caused repeated controversy among Gertz and his extended family, with the case now set for SCJN intervention on March 14. The
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican Senator Xóchitl Gálvez, a member of the country’s conservative National Action Party (PAN) opposition, said Tuesday, Feb. 22, that a conflict-of-interest complaint she filed with the U.S. Security Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this month had received the go-ahead to proceed with a financial audit of contracts between Mexico’s state-run Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company and the
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By KELIN DILLON On the heels of the controversial irregularities found and publicly released by Mexico’s Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) in a report surrounding the construction of the country’s megaprojects, a new source of contention has arisen from ASF findings: Federal Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero and close collaborator of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Jan. 10, relatives of Mexico’s Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero plead their case before the president of the Supreme Court Justice (SCJN), begging for the release of their 68-year-old mother, Gertz’s niece, who the Attorney General’s Office had imprisoned for the supposed negligent homicide of her father and Gertz’s blood brother, who died in
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