Despite her very dignified role as a candidate and a dynamic campaign based on popular values, Del Moral could not overcome the effects of Del Mazo’s abandonment, nor the poor support of the PRI’s national leader, Alejandro Moreno, who was likewise more interested in his own political future than that of the party
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The National Regeneration Movement’s gubernatorial win in the State of Mexico has caused members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party to point blame at the state’s current governor, Alfredo del Mazo, for the party’s loss
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This is not the first time Gómez has faced controversy in her checkered political career so far
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Teotihuacán, the center of Mexico’s most famous pre-Hispanic pyramids, could lose its status as a UNESCO World Heritage site, according to the president of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (Icomos). Current construction work being conducted in the Teotihuacán archaeological zone with heavy machinery for the new Santa Lucía airport — one of
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By KELIN DILLON The new Military Air Base (BAM) of the Santa Lucía International Airport was inaugurated on Wednesday, Feb. 10, to mark its construction reaching 50 percent of its completion,with its first fly in by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Mexico’s newest BAM reportedly cost 82.136 billion pesos, including its connection by land to the Mexico City
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By RICARDO CASTILLO No Changes in Energy Laws After U.S. Ambassador Christopher Landau, echoing both U.S. and European energy investors, voiced concern over changes in Mexican energy regulations, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) denied that there had been any changes and vowed to respect all contracts from the previous administration. Landau also said that this was “not a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A powerful earthquake of magnitud 7.5 on the Richter Scale rocked Mexico City at about 10:29 a.m. local time on Tuesday, June 23. In a city still under lockdown from the covid-19 pandemic and still recovering from the massive damages of the Sept. 19, 2017 quake, the tremor sent nervous residents fleeing from their
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Happy Birthday, Carlos Slim Just as Mexico’s and Latin America’s wealthiest man, Carlos Slim, was gearing up to celebrate his 80th birthday on Tuesday, Jan. 28, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) delivered a special gift that surely the tycoon did not appreciate: a fine for nearly 1.39 billion pesos. The fine applied directly to mismanagement of accounting
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The behemoth New International Mexico Airport (NAIM) project was declared defunct on Monday, Oct. 29, by President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) after the “no” vote triumphed overwhelmingly during the four-day (Oct. 25 through Oct. 28) national consultation poll carried out by the now-ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party. The airport construction, at about 20 percent completion (32
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