By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to an extensive investigation conducted by the U.S. Spanish-language television network Univision, Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero — who has already earned himself considerable public ridicule and distrust for prosecuting his 94-year-old sister-in-law and her family in order to expropriate their inheritance from his late brother, and for trying to incarcerate 31
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mariana Moguel, daughter of imprisoned former Mexican Social Development (Sedesol) Secretary Rosario Robles — who has been held without trial since August 2019 at the behest of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for alleged involvement in the so-called Mater Fraud of some 5 billion pesos — filed a legal complaint on Wednesday,
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) publicly revealed the excessive spending habits of controversial Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero, details about the documents Gertz’s own in-laws delivered to the FIU outlining his irregular financial practices surrounding some $7.9 million have come to light. The FIU
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday, Dec. 8, that the country’s Public Function Secretariat (SFP) should investigate the accumulation of assets of the Treasury Secretariat’s (Hacienda) former head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), Santiago Nieto, who in 25 months acquired four properties and a car worth at least 40 million
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By KELIN DILLON Following an investigation by Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), financial records tracking the spending of controversial Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero and recently disgraced former FIU head Santiago Nieto showed the two officials’ extravagant spending habits, doling out millions and millions of pesos for exotic cars, luxury properties
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what appears to be the fruit of some of the closed-door negotiations that took place between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his U.S. counterpart, President Joe Biden, during their face-to-face meeting in Washington on Nov. 18, the United States revealed on Wednesday, Dec. 1, that Mexico has unblocked the issuing
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS If there is anything that distinguishes Mexico’s federal judicial system under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) it is a lack of any semblance of real justice. Led by AMLO buddy Alejandro Gertz Manero — who famously (or better said, infamously) has repeatedly tried to jail his 94-year-old sister-in-law on charges of murder of his brother, who
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) indicted two former investigative experts, Mauricio Cerón Solana and Patricia Gómez Ramírez, before a federal court late last week for allegedly altering and losing evidence of the search for the 43 education students from Ayotzinapa who disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, in 2014. This is the first time that the
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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 KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt), through its newly revised code of conduct, has ordered its members and researchers to not publicly criticize the organization without first going through its press office. The new terms will require that researchers “refrain from issuing negative or unfavorable comments or opinions on the agency’s policies or programs.” The
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