By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican Labor Party Deputy Mauricio Toledo just can’t seem to dodge the bullets that keep being hurdled at him for alleged illicit enrichment and other criminal charges. Toledo, who took office in 2018 as part of the majority party National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) leftist coalition, is currently being investigated by the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City’s Attorney General’s Office said Monday, June 14, that is has requested the extradition of businessman and former Mexican diplomat Andrés Roemer Slomianski, who has been accused of multiple sexual crimes. Roemer, who is believed to be currently residing in Israel, has allegedly sexually assaulted or raped more than 60 women in Mexico.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICVO STAFF Claims that Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero is using his position to persecute and steal from the family of his deceased brother continued to mount as his great nephew demanded Tuesday, June 8, that Gertz Manero prove the accusations he has launched against the family. In a second video that soon went viral
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican federal forces former Nayarit Governor Roberto Sandoval Castañeda and his daughter, Lidy Alejandra Sandoval, in Linares, Nuevo León on the morning of Sunday, June 6. The arrest was made in compliance with a warrant from the federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) on charges of operations with financial resources of illicit origin.
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since he first took office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been pushing to consolidating his institutional power by dismantling independent institutions, mandating constitutional rewrites and discrediting his opponents through unsubstantiated charges of criminal activity. One of the most notable victims of this latter political tactic has been the current governor
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By KELIN DILLON At the request of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR), a federal judge ordered the issuing of an arrest warrant against the National Action Party (PAN) governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, for alleged actions of organized crime and money laundering. Cabeza de Vaca has been the center of Mexican political news over the past
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a series of accusations of sexual abuse and rape began to mount against Mexican businessman and internationally recognized thinker Andrés Roemer Slomianski, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) formally ordered his arrest him on Wednesday, May 5. According to the FGR, after extensive investigation, it decided that there was sufficient evidence against Roemer for
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexican federal deputies voted Wednesday, April 28, to remove the conditional immunity afforded to Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca as an government officeholder and to proceed with his impeachment, state senators voted late Friday, April 30, to reinstate that immunity and cancel the impeachment process. The leftist National Regeneration Movement
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It doesn’t take much to earn yourself a “fiscal review” under the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). In fact, just being from an opposition party is grounds enough for AMLO to sic his fiscal dogs on you, shove you in jail with no hopes of parole (and no tangible evidence against you) and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Vaccine Chaos The covid-19 vaccine rollout in Mexico, which began in December of last year, has been chaotic, to say the least, with allegations of empty syringes, vaccine hoarding, preferential administration for government workers and political maneuvering. Currently, the government is dishing up a hodgepodge of both one-dose and two-dose vaccines (some internationally verified, some not) from
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