The World in Turmoil
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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US State Department Says Corruption Still Rampant in Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. State Department released its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) on Tuesday, March 1, noting that “organized crime groups continue to have influence over high-ranking officials within the Mexican government in an environment where corruption persists.” In the report, the INCSR said that this persistent ubiquity of corruption “hinders the fight
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AMLO’s Little Nest Egg
Read moreAMLO Wanted the INAI to Do his Dirty Work
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Somehow the irony of demanding that the supposedly autonomous National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) — which has, as its name implies, among its main duties the protection of Mexican citizen’s personal data — to hand over and publicly reveal personal information of one of his main critics seemed
Read moreLoret de Mola Goes after AMLO in Washington Post Editorial
By KELIN DILLON In an opinion piece published in the Washington Post on Sunday, Feb. 6, Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola A. – a perennial target of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) public denouncements of Mexico’s modern media – detailed the regular attacks López Obrador has taken against the country’s journalists for reporting facts, calling journalism AMLO’s
Read moreLozoya Loses Injunction against Continued Detention without Bail
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya on Wednesday, Jan. 26, was denied a habeas corpus injunction against being held without bail and against any further warrants for his arrest. Lozoya, who has been held in prevention detention (jail without the possibility of bail) in the North Penitentiary since Nov. 3 on charges of
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Mexican Government Washes its Hands of Corruption
Read moreGertz Manero’s Hidden Assets Keep on Mounting
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to an extensive investigation conducted by the U.S. Spanish-language television network Univision, Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero — who has already earned himself considerable public ridicule and distrust for prosecuting his 94-year-old sister-in-law and her family in order to expropriate their inheritance from his late brother, and for trying to incarcerate 31
Read moreFGJ Tracks 1 Billion Missing Pesos from Mancera’s Mayoral Term
By KELIN DILLON In part of its quest to investigate alleged corruption and illegal enrichment by past Mexican government officials, the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (FGJ) has reportedly tracked one billion missing pesos that were purportedly embezzled under the administration of former Mexico City Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera. The investigation has apparently revealed a network of shell companies used
Read moreMorena’s Not-So-Different Propensity for Corruption
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Who says that corruption and nepotistic malfeasance are not well and alive and flourishing in Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party? Certainly not anyone with an inkling of honest impartiality and nonpartisan fairness. Just this Wednesday, Nov. 24, the daily newspaper Reforma pointed out that the government of Mexico
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