By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The future of Mexico’s centralist National Institutional Party (PRI) will be contingent to a single concept: loyalty. The PRI lost all the governorships in its power in June for two reasons: the depth of its discredit (derived more from its arrogance than from the failure of the governments it led), and the lack of loyalty of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Lozoya Case Postponed The start date for the trial of former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya Austin was postponed on request of the Mexican Attorney General’s Office due to pandemic-related complications. The deadline was supposed to be last Sunday, March 7. Judge José Artemio Zúñiga Mendoza, however, granted investigators more time to conclude the presentation of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Inside the Closed Dinner Does the name Patricia Armendáriz ring a bell? Most likely not. But, she was the only business woman invited by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to join him at last week’s White House meet with U.S. President Donald Trump. Armendáriz, who runs a highly successful savings, loans and investments organization called
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A Show of Mutual Respect at Binational Summit While at the White House in Washington, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) received three “gifts” from his host, U.S. President Donald Trump. First, as we at Pulse News Mexico had forecast, AMLO talked baseball with Trump and both exchanged bats. The one Trump received was decorated with
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Mexican writ of legal protection, or amparo, is a juridical resource for those who know they could stand accused of a wrongdoing. Historically, it’s unprecedented in the nation for a standing president to request an amparo which he will use in the near future. But as the old adage goes, there’s always a first time and that
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A six-year term of blatant fiscal corruption and barefaced political abuse may finally be winding down for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN) and his cabinet of cronies, who are due to leave office (not any too soon) at the end of November. But despite indisputable evidence of financial embezzlement, political malfeasance, shady backroom deals and outright robbery, Peña
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By RICARDO CASTILLLO Did Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto make a big mistake when he appointed José Antonio Meade Kuribreña as the candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for the 2018 presidential elections? A growing number of observers in Mexico think so. It was considered very strange when, about a week ago, candidate Meade launched a full
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