Ricardo Monreal, leader of the Morena majority bloc in the Senate, criticized Mejía Berdeja’s resignation from his post and his subsequent defection to the PT as its official gubernatorial candidate in Coahuila
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) changed its mind at the last minute — as it has in the past — leaving former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya still in prison on Tuesday, April 12, after having negotiated his release in exchange for returning $10.7 million to the state-run oil giant. Late Monday, April 11, Mexican Federal
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A full 17 months after his extradition to Mexico from Spain, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) asked a federal judge to sentence former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya to 39 years in prison for allegedly taking bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. In a letter delivered to Judge Artemio Zúñiga Mendoza of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A full two and a half months after being extradited back to Mexico from Spain, Alonso Ancira, owner of the Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) steel foundry plant in Monterrey, Nuevo León, left prison late Monday, April 19, in a black G-500 Mercedes Benz pickup truck. The businessman, who made no comment to the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican steel tycoon Alonso Ancira was extradited from Spain to Mexico on Wednesday, Feb 3, to face trial in Mexico on charges of defrauding the government. After several hours in the Attorney General’s Office facilities, Ancira was reportedly taken to the Northside Penitentiary, where he will continue to hear the accusations against him. The former CEO of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO No Lupe-Reyes Reveling The good news is that on Friday, Dec. 11, Mexico approved the Pfizer-BioNTech labs covid vaccine and will soon begin administering it to health workers and the nation’s most vulnerable. But while this may mean light at the end of the tunnel, for Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe (Lupe) worshipers, it did not come soon
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Steel King Tanked, Again Spanish police on Saturday, Nov. 8, arrested Mexican citizen Alonso Ancira Elizondo in the island resort of Palma de Mallorca. Ancira, head of the steel foundry Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA), now faces extradition to Mexico. He was free on bond but the court, known as the National Audience of Spain, rejected
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid-19 Vaccine Funds Assured The Mexican government wields, for starters, 20 billion pesos “we have saved because there is no more corruption nor luxuries” to vaccinate every Mexican, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) while on tour in Puebla over the weekend. At the same time, he called upon every Mexican to not be overconfident before
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS If there remains any doubt as to whether or not Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has assumed dictatorial powers, his blatant use of “trial by president” should be proof enough for anyone with even the slightest knowledge of how a democracy is supposed to work. Let me be very clear: The fact that AMLO has
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Curtain up, the “L” Show Is On Finally, Mexico’s Fiscal General of the Republic (FGR) ordered the start of the trial of former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya Austin on two separate charges. The charges will be dealt with in separate hearings. On Tuesday, July 28, Federal Judge José Artemio Zúñiga Mendoza opened the first of
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