PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican Attorney General’s Office (FGR) announced late Tuesday, Aug. 2, that the federal Prosecutor’s Office is currently conducting an investigation into former President Enrique Peña Nieto on three counts of potential corruption: electoral crimes, money laundering and illicit enrichment-. In a written statement Tuesday night, the FGR said that it the investigation was sparked by various
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Tamaulipas reporter Antonio de la Cruz from the Ciudad Victoria newspaper Expreso was shot dead on Wednesday, June 29, while leaving his home, becoming the 12th journalist to be killed so far this year in Mexico. De la Cruz, who had been working at Expreso for more than 25 years, was, at that time, accompanied by his
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XINHUA At least 10 “heavily” armed gunmen were shot dead and seven other people were wounded on Tuesday, June 14, in a shootout with Mexican police in the Texcaltitlán municipality, in the central State of Mexico (Edoméx), officials said. The gunfight began when agents from the local prosecutor’s office attempted to carry out an arrest warrant and were met with
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, June 13, the controversial mayor of Mexico City’s Cuauhtémoc municipality, Sandra Cuevas, was informed by the capital’s Administrative Justice Court (TJA) that she will be removed from her position for one year following her alleged crimes of abuse in relation to her contentious closure of the Deportivo Guelatao sports complex, a decision Cuevas has announced
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By KELIN DILLON Though Mexico’s Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection may have detailed the country’s year-to-year homicide rate reduction during a press conference on Monday, May 24, continued reports of rampant violence throughout the country have put the veracity of the government’s purported lower rates into question. According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Security System
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A federal judge on Thursday, May 19, dealt Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) a major judicial setback by ordering the dismissal of a case filed against three lawyers by fellow lawyer Juan Ramón Collado accusing them of extortion. Collado, who previously served as former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s most trustworthy legal advisor, is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The body of Debanhi Escobar, a teenage girl from the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León who went missing on April 8 after having been left on the side of the road by a taxi driver late at night, was found on Thursday, April 21, inside a cistern tank at a cheap hotel in
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By KELIN DILLON After losing both the controversial presidential mandate revocation and electricity reform bill within the space of one week, Mexico’s ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) – the party of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) – has begun fighting among itself, with U.S.-born writer and academic John Ackerman suggesting that Morena must fix its internal tensions –
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Alejandro Gertz’s War on his In-Laws
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