By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The ongoing (and scandalous) saga of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) versus the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) in the persecution of 31 prestigious scientists and academics for the alleged misuse of use of federal resources has begun to taint the political aspirations of Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the heir apparent of
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Oct. 4, Mexico’s Third District Judge of Amparo in Mexico City Criminal Matters ruled that Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero may not continue to speak on the alleged guilt of former Secretary of Social Development Rosario Robles in her ongoing legal process, citing Gertz’s previously public discussion on the topic as interfering with her
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) on Tuesday, Oct. 5, issued summons to six of the 31 scientists and former officials of the National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) who are under investigation for alleged acts of organized crime, money laundering, embezzlement and the illicit use of attributions and powers. According to most unbiased
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By KELIN DILLON Less than a week after families of the 43 disappeared students from Mexico’s Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the federal government to demand answers about the military’s involvement in the 2014 event, the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero released the military’s 239-page statement as
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In what seems like a little bit of very justified tit-for-tat, the family of Laura Morán Servín, widow of Federal Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero’s late brother Federico Gertz Manero, filed a request on Wednesday, Sept. 22, with Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) to investigate allegedly illicit deposits by their in-law in foreign tax havens for
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero continues his pursuit to put 31 of the nation’s scientists behind bars, the FGR has emerged with accusations against nine former officials of the National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) and Consultative, Scientific and Technological Forum (FCCyT) that could land them each up to 82.5
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By KELIN DILLON After Mexico’s Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, an official widely recognized for the blatant and shameless persecution of his perceived opponents that extends into members of his own family, used his power to launch arrest warrants against 31 scientists that revealed his history of plagiarism to the public, more than 600 academics have rallied in support of
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By KELIN DILLON After a tumultuous year for the official, Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero has now issued 31 arrest warrants against a group of scientists, researchers and academics who had previously accused him of plagiarism. Just this past July, members of academic group National System of Investigators (SNI) had publicly denounced Gertz Manero for copying text word-for-word when
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A Mexican federal judge on Tuesday, Sept. 14, annulled the arrest warrant and the formal prison order issued against the two women accused of allegedly having caused the death of Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero’s brother through negligence in 2015. Fifth District Appeals Judge Patricia Marcela Diez Cerda in Mexico City ordered the release of Laura Morán
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Among the myriad of self-ordained unofficial titles that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has acquired over his so-far two-and-a-half-year-term of office is that of clergy-in-chief. Indeed, it is not uncommon for the president to transition his daily political bully pulpit into a religious pulpit during his two-hour-long morning press conferences. And one of his favorite
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