By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was announcing that the Joe Biden administration had determined Russia had indeed committed war crimes in Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to Mexico Víktor Koronelli went before Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, March 23, to “congratulate” the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for not
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In order to protest mounting insecurity along Mexico’s highways and toll charges, as well as increasing fuel prices, dozens of heavy cargo trucks set up blockades on Tuesday, March 22, in at least 20 states. Members of the Mexican Alliance of Organization of Transporters (Amotac) began their mobilizations with a blockade in the vicinity
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just one day after Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies voted to approve a reform that would have allowed financial institutions that grant loans to workers to garnish payments directly from their salaries, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) let it be known on Friday, March 18, that he would veto the bill if it was
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, March 8 – International Women’s Day – the niece of Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero, Ana Paula Castillo Cuevas, presented an “expansion” of her request for her uncle’s impeachment to the Chamber of Deputies, alleging that her relative had committed gender-based violence. Recently leaked audio tapes of Gertz’ telephone conversations
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In what was seen by many women in Mexico as a blatant affront to their cause to end the country’s surging levels of femicide and gender-based violence, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) marked Tuesday, March 8, International Women’s Day (M8), locked in the National Palace, congratulating himself for his political accomplishments (like, for example, more
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By KELIN DILLON Following a number of high-profile controversies throughout her term as head of Mexico City’s oldest and most historic district, Cuauhtémoc Mayor Sandra Cuevas has once more invited criticism into her administration as the official burst into, then canceled, a press conference surrounding allegations that Cuevas had been throwing balloons with 500-peso bills glued to them from the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Deputy Reyna Celeste Ascencio, a member of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, presented an initiative to the federal Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, Feb. 22, aimed at preventing civil organizations from receiving funding from abroad. The proposed reform would prevent international donations from being used to
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By KELIN DILLON After attempting to distance himself from a multinational scandal surrounding his residency in a million-dollar mansion owned by an affiliate of Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in Houston, Texas, José Ramón López Beltrán, the son of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), revealed yet another conflict of the interest in the process of his
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON Three years after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) ordered the cancellation of the New Mexico City International Airport’s (NAICM) construction in Texcoco, the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) has given three different estimated reports of the cancellation’s cost, with no clear resolution on the project’s final price tag, leading to skepticism of the institution’s
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