By KELIN DILLON In the first three years of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) has acted in López Obrador’s favor four times at his direct suggestion, leaving the institution’s impartiality in question. Recently, the FGR announced its case against former Secretary of the Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal for illegal
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero was accused of plagiarising paragraphs of his work from others on Wednesday, July 7, taking portions of texts word-for-word, dating back as far as 1939. Gertz reportedly used the verbatim work of five different authors to gain admission to the third level of the National System of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICVO STAFF Claims that Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero is using his position to persecute and steal from the family of his deceased brother continued to mount as his great nephew demanded Tuesday, June 8, that Gertz Manero prove the accusations he has launched against the family. In a second video that soon went viral
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR), Alejandro Gertz Manero, was accused of using his status and influence to illegally recover the assets and accounts of his deceased brother, Federico Gertz, for himself. Gertz allegedly sought to imprison his former sister-in-law and two of her daughters, blaming them for the negligent homicide of his brother that purportedly
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Vaccines Registration Underway, Sort of… As of Tuesday, Feb. 2, the Mexican government has opened up its Natonal Vaccination Program of covid-19 vaccines to everyone over the age of 60, allowing those eligible to register on a webpage run by the Interior Secretariat (SeGob). In theory, everyone in Mexico over age 60 — including legal foreign residents
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In an editorial published on Friday, Jan. 22, the U.S.-based financial and media firm Bloomberg alleged that Mexico’s war on drugs has “taken a turn for the worse.” Focusing heavy on the bilateral fallout related to the controversial Salvador Cienfuegos case, the opinion article focuses on the dangerous consequences of a lack of bilateral cooperation in curbing
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO Welcomes Biden Newly instated U.S. President Joe Biden’s inaugural speech on Wednesday, Jan. 20, was welcomed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who said it was full of good news. Asked during his Thursday, Jan. 21, press conference whether he felt threatened by Biden, AMLO responded: “We have nothing to object to. On the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO Reshuffles his Queens The reshuffling of women in the Mexican presidential cabinet that was announced on Monday, Dec. 7, may not be to the liking of many, but the dice have already rolled and the shots stand. The problem with the five reappointed women in the cabinet of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is not
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a surprise move, U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced late Tuesday, Nov. 17, that his office would be dropping all charges against former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda. The decision to drop the charges against Cienfuegos in the United States came at the request of Mexico’s Fiscal General (FGR) in order for the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A request for an arrest warrant from Mexico’s Fiscal General against former Treasury and Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray Caso bounced by a federal judge last weekend and not only prevented a major scandal for Videgaray, but also reinforced the fact that the so-called “attorneys for the people” just cannot manage to put a viable case together.
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