US Envoy Talks Democracy One Day after Plan B Passage
For governments to work for the people, the U.S. envoy said, they must be open and corruption-free
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AMLO Offers Asylum to Those Persecuted by Nicaragua’s Ortega
The Ortega regime, which has imprisoned hundreds of dissidents in recent weeks, including a Catholic bishop who was sentenced to 26 years, has gained international condemnation for it increasingly autocratic measures
Read moreAMLO Won’t Go to Americas Summit (Surprise, Surprise!)
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After much hemming and hawing, and trying to use his attendance as a political leverage peck against U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, June 6, announced — finally — that he will not attend the four-day Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, which actually had begun that same
Read moreThe Summit of the Americas and an Indecisive AMLO
OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO Just a week before it is set to start, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has yet to decide whether he will attend the June 6 Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California. Over this weekend, AMLO had several opportunities to make a statement as to whether he will attend, but instead kept repeating
Read moreReversing SRE Decision, AMLO Sends Rep to Ortega Inauguration
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) had announced over the weekend that the country would not be sending a representative to the inaugural ceremony of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega — who has been categorized by most democratic nations as a dictator who is remaining in power on the back of an
Read moreThe View from the North: Worrying Trends in Mexico, Seen from Abroad
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As an outsider who follows Mexico and Mexican news closely, I’ve noticed a couple of recent articles that should be worrying the Mexican middle class. First, according to his column in Pulse News Mexico, Ricardo Castillo has noted that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is making investors nervous. Castillo wrote: “Fear does not ride on
Read moreUncertainty, the New Norm
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Read moreUS Treasury Issues Assets Advisory on Nicaragua
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published an advisory on Thursday, Oct. 4, warning United States financial institutions that senior foreign political figures connected to the regime of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega may seek to transfer proceeds from acts of political corruption into the United States financial system. The statement added
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