The video seemed to confirm what witnesses of the May 18 killings had claimed, that the five victims had been drugged from their black pick-up truck by soldiers after having crashed, and then forced to kneel as the officers shot them in the back of the head
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The most obvious problem about the sale was that López Obrador got rid of the plane at a loss, and a massive one at that: It was originally acquired by former President Enrique Peña Nieto for $200 million, and then finally sold by AMLO to Tajikistan for a mere $92 million
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In 2022, there were 696 attacks on journalists in Mexico — at least one attack on a journalist every 13 hours
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After more than three and a half years of the same old spiel (“neoliberals are to blame for everything that’s wrong with the country,” “the conservative press are all unscrupulous liars,” and that most absurd claim of all, “my government is not corrupt”), it seems that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is finally beginning
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, March 29, parents and families of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa who disappeared in September 2014 took to a conference to express their disappointment and angry feelings toward the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). In its three years in office thus far, the López Obrador administration has done little to resolve
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Between July and August, the number of gender-based murders of women in Mexico increased 57.3 percent, to a record total of 107 femicides, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP). The August femicides represent the highest number since records first began to be kept in Mexico in 2015, the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to deny that the Mexican government is spying on journalists and opposition leaders, a report published on Sunday, July 18, in the Washington Post would seem to contract his claims. The article — written by Dana Priest, Craig Timberg and Souad Mekhennet in cooperation with 16
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By KELIN DILLON Mario Marín Torres, former governor of the central Mexican state of Puebla, was arrested in Acapulco, Guerrero, on Wednesday, Feb. 3, by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) after two years on the run from authorities. An arrest warrant was put out in 2019 by Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, alongside a red Interpol notice, for Marín and
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By KELIN DILLON In an interview with El Universal, Érika Guevara Rosas, director of Amnesty International (AI) in the Americas, admonished Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for his repeated flippance on Mexico’s widespread gender violence problem. “Mexico occupies one of the first places in the world in the number of femicides, of disappearances of girls and adolescents with pregnancies
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By KELIN DILLON For the first time in the history of Mexico, almost half of the federal government’s secretariats will now be headed by women. The new cabinet of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will consist of nine women and 10 men, the closest gender differential ever seen in a Mexican president’s cabinet. The appointments break traditional gendered
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