Peña Nieto Administration Allegedly Ordered Espionage on Businessmen, Journalists
A witness in the trial of Juan Carlos N purported that around 1,500 individuals were targeted by Pegasus spyware under the orders of Peña Nieto
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The Only Way to Oust Morena in 2024
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:
Read moreWashington Post Says Mexico Is Spying on Journalists
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to deny that the Mexican government is spying on journalists and opposition leaders, a report published on Sunday, July 18, in the Washington Post would seem to contract his claims. The article — written by Dana Priest, Craig Timberg and Souad Mekhennet in cooperation with 16
Read moreHasta la Vista, Baby!
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is leaving office with a bang. Today, Friday, Nov. 30, he is in Buenos Aires meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to sign the would-be final draft of the new North American Free Trade Agreement, or whatever it is called nowadays. (I say would-be because on
Read moreAMLO Takes Stand on Former Presidents, National Guard
By RICARDO CASTILLO Given the uproar that President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is causing with his governance plans, he devoted the entire week of Nov. 19 to giving out interviews to all those requesting them – mainly radio and television – to clear up his points of view. In all this, it must be considered that, although we are still
Read morePeña Nieto Never Understood that He Didn’t Understand
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
Read morePeña Nieto Tries to Compensate for AMLO Overshadowing Him
By RICARDO CASTILLO Last week, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto went on an unprecedented spree of interviews with three major television stations (Televisa, Imagen and TVAzteca). He was also interviewed by the leftist daily La Jornada and other newspapers. But should the president be doing this nowadays? There are a number of reasons he is launching this media blitz. First off,
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