By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) has requested a massive sum of 1.7 million pesos to release documents relating to the infamous Odebrecht corruption case to the media, a file that has been kept by the FGR since 2017. The National Transparency Institute (INAI) ordered the file’s release as per Mexico’s transparency law in a digital format; the
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) seemingly believes everything that disgraced former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya’s claims surrounding who received bribes during his time at the company, despite several witnesses offering testimony to the contrary. After admitting himself to have received bribes from corrupt Brazilian company Odebrecht after his extradition back to Mexico in
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By KELIN DILLON New reports acquired through the Tax Administration Service’s (SAT) transparency law have revealed that Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) funneled more than 215 million pesos into shell companies between 2014 and 2019 via 3,242 invoices. This time frame coincides with two years of the term of current Semar head Admiral José Rafael Ojeda Durán, who Mexican
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Putting a Halt to Corruption
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AMLO’s War on Corruption
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) is apparently investigating the financial operators of former President Enrique Peña Nieto and his Secretary of the Treasury Luis Videgaray Caso, as well as those of former National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya Cortés, according to a report from the Milenio daily newspaper. Milenio said that those
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True Growth in AMLO’s 4T
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to dole out high-ranking (and high-paying) government jobs to luggage porters and entourage traffic managers with little or no academic or professional qualifications (other than their undying loyalty to him), on Monday, June 22, he ousted one of his “most-uncompromising” (his words) proselytes from her office as head
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By KELIN DILLON A referendum held by popular vote will take place in Mexico on Aug. 1, said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), with the public deciding on whether or not the country should prosecute its former heads of state for alleged criminal activity. “I take this opportunity to invite people to participate in this referendum,” said AMLO
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By KELIN DILLON After the cancellation of the controversial candidacy of Guerrero gubernatorial hopeful and alleged rapist Félix Salgado Macedonio by the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF), the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) needed to quickly hunt down a replacement for the post, and apparently found it in Salgado Macedonio’s eldest daughter, Evelyn Salgado Pineda, despite heavy criticism from
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