By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday, Oct. 7, said that his administration will continue to pressure the United States to increase investment in southern Mexican and Central American countries during the upcoming bilateral high-level security meetings. The first U.S.-Mexico High-Level Security Dialogue is set to take place in Mexico City on Friday,
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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 RICARDO CASTILLO … The resignation of Mexican Supreme Court Judge Eduardo Medina Mora has certainly shaken up the Mexican political system…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO What came as a shock to the Mexican political system last Friday, July 5, was not that the nation’s fiscal (attorney) general managed to get a judge to issue him yet another arrest warrant against former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya Austin, but that the arrest warrant also included his mother, wife and sister, Gilda Austin,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The financial-political scandal in Mexico that is threatening to become a perfect storm is nothing new. It’s been in the making for 28 years now, but in the bat of an eye this week, two arrest warrants were issued by the Fiscal Attorney General of the Republic. That’s what this story is about. On Tuesday,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The top criticism of outgoing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and his governance team has been repeated time and time again. “They just don’t understand that they don’t understand,” was the general consensus of top columnists and political observers across Mexico as the president sent his last State of the Nation Address to the joint session of Congress (the
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