By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS At long last, spring has arrived in Mexico, and, as a result, the capital’s streets are now awash in sumptuous shades of lavender and lilac as the city’s lush jacaranda trees come into full bloom. Yes, the clusters of violet-blue trumpet flowers embraced by an ensemble of dark green fern-like foliage that grace the city this time of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Former Brazilian President and current presidential hopeful Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) at the National Palace on Tuesday, March 1. The former Brazilian head of state, a diehard leftist who served as his nation’s president from 2003 to 2011 and who is running for a
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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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 Mexico now ranks in fifth place worldwide in terms of inflation, surpassed only by Argentina, Turkey, Brazil and Russia, in that order. Mexico’s inflation rate is expected to top 8 percent by the end of 2021. According to a Trading Economics report released this week, Argentina had the highest price increases this year, with
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico has the dubious distinction of ranking Number One worldwide in paid assassinations, according to a report released last week by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), an independent institution based out of Geneva, Switzerland. When it comes to the murder-for-hire of political figures, local authorities, security forces, journalists and representatives of
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON In a press conference on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 21, Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard denounced the fact that Haitian migrants, who passed through Mexico on their way to the United States in hopes of gaining asylum, were deceived by the leaders of their former countries of residence, including Chile and Brazil, to encourage
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The sixth summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), hosted by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) at the National Palace on Saturday, Sept. 18, turned into a daylong shouting match between leftist and conservative leaders, overshadowing any hopes of real regional unity and shining a negative light on AMLO’s already-dubious international
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. envoy Ken Salazar, along with 16 other then-ambassador-designates, presented diplomatic credentials to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in a solemn ceremony at the National Palace on Tuesday, Sept. 14, just three days after Salazar’s arrival in the country. After the ceremony, in which Salazar was the last to present credentials due
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