OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Neither Alejandro Moreno, president of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), not Marko Cortés, head of its conservative National Acton Party (PAN), are willing to budge from their positions, despite the fact that both parties registered a resounding defeat in the country’s June 6 gubernatorial elections. That leaves the Mexican people with only one alternative:
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO These days, the political gossip churners in Mexico have a new favorite target: Federal Deputy Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, alias “Alito” (short for Alejandro), who is the both the current president of the once-mighty Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, which ruled the country without interruptions from 1929 to 2000), and the leader of the remaining 70 PRI deputies in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF London’s esteemed Financial Times (FT) newspaper on Sunday, March 6, called on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to “learn from his mistakes” and “to rethink his policies” that are dragging the country back to the 1960s. “López Obrador was famous for defying political gravity,” the world’s leading business publication said in an
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican Senator Xóchitl Gálvez, a member of the country’s conservative National Action Party (PAN) opposition, said Tuesday, Feb. 22, that a conflict-of-interest complaint she filed with the U.S. Security Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this month had received the go-ahead to proceed with a financial audit of contracts between Mexico’s state-run Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company and the
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Somehow the irony of demanding that the supposedly autonomous National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) — which has, as its name implies, among its main duties the protection of Mexican citizen’s personal data — to hand over and publicly reveal personal information of one of his main critics seemed
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Thursday, Feb. 10, yet another Mexican journalist was murdered, the fifth so far this year, and the 50th since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took office three years ago. Heber López, from the internet news site Noticias Web in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, was shot dead in broad daylight as he left his office Thursday
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Civil organizations, prosecutors and lawyers on Friday, Feb. 11, condemned Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for publicly disclosing the alleged income of journalist Carlos Loret de Mola and warned that it constitutes a federal crime. During his the morning press conference in Hermosillo, Sonora, Friday morning, AMLO displayed a slide with a
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By KELIN DILLON In an opinion piece published in the Washington Post on Sunday, Feb. 6, Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola A. – a perennial target of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) public denouncements of Mexico’s modern media – detailed the regular attacks López Obrador has taken against the country’s journalists for reporting facts, calling journalism AMLO’s
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In the latest edition of his weekly digital news program Latinus on Saturday, Jan. 29, internationally acclaimed journalist Carlos Loret de Mola presented a report on an extensive investigation, conducted in cooperation with the nonprofit Mexicans against Corruption, revealing the lush lifestyle of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO), José Ramón López Beltrán,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Among the myriad of self-ordained unofficial titles that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has acquired over his so-far two-and-a-half-year-term of office is that of clergy-in-chief. Indeed, it is not uncommon for the president to transition his daily political bully pulpit into a religious pulpit during his two-hour-long morning press conferences. And one of his favorite
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