By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, July 5, an editorial by the New York Times’ Natalie Kitroeff and Maria Abi-Habib revealed that the United States has purportedly lost faith in its appointed ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, and reportedly believes that the diplomat has exhibited a repeated pattern of favoring Mexico and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) policies over
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau announced Friday, Jan. 8, that he and his family will be returning home to the United States on Jan. 20. “With the change of government in the United States on Jan. 20, my term as ambassador to Mexico will come to a close,” Landau said in a tweet.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau said Thursday, Jan. 7, that the assault on the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. was “unacceptable.” “There is a clear line between political protest and dissidence, on one hand, and violence and intimidation, on the other,” Landau said on his official government Twitter account. “The events that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Red Alert for Three Kings’ Day There could be no more powerful image over the Christmas and New Year holidays than the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) doctors working out of covid-laden patient wards telling everyone, “We don’t want to see you here. Please, stay home.” Their pleas, however, fell on deaf ears. On Tuesday, Jan. 5,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Vote Postponed The Mexican Chamber of Deputies postponed the vote on the outsourcing regulation bill, which was slated to take place on Thursday, Nov. 26. Now, the debate over it will continue until sometime next week. The decision came after there was an exponential increase of speakers taking the podium from 70, on Monday, Nov. 23,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Steel King Tanked, Again Spanish police on Saturday, Nov. 8, arrested Mexican citizen Alonso Ancira Elizondo in the island resort of Palma de Mallorca. Ancira, head of the steel foundry Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA), now faces extradition to Mexico. He was free on bond but the court, known as the National Audience of Spain, rejected
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Huda Tal, wife of Jordanian Ambassador to Mexico Mohammad Mustafa Cyel Mustafa Wahbi Tal, offered an afternoon cooking class to a small group of fellow diplomatic wives at her Lomas de Chapultepec residence on Monday, Oct. 26. An avid chef who is anxious to help promote her nation’s rich culture in Mexico, Tal is hoping to present
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The denial for a $750,000 bail by California Federal District Judge Alexander F. Mackinnon to former Mexico Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda on Tuesday, Oct. 20, in Los Angeles set the stage for a drawn-out trial. Now what remains for the 72-year-old former soldier is a long and windy road to hell. Cienfuegos has gone from riches
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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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