By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what appears to be the fruit of some of the closed-door negotiations that took place between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his U.S. counterpart, President Joe Biden, during their face-to-face meeting in Washington on Nov. 18, the United States revealed on Wednesday, Dec. 1, that Mexico has unblocked the issuing
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In his self-aggrandizing address to the nation on Thursday, July 1, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said that the country’s fight against organized crime was “well in hand” and that there were only three cartels currently operating in Mexico. That, it seems, is news to the cartels. In fact, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s leftist National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) candidate for mayor of Huetamo, Michoacán, Rogelio Portillo Jaramillo, is reportedly wanted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for the crime of conspiracy. Portillo Jaramillo has been identified by the DEA as heavily associated with Mexico’s violent New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG), with the current intelligence file
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) has reportedly spread its influence over the past four years into the states of Michoacán, Zacatecas and Guanajuato, with narco trafficking-linked violence in the regions increasing more and more as time goes on. The CJNG is known for its military-like tactics, using camouflage and heavy-duty artillery, with weapon stockpiles so powerful
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Gags on Twitter and Facebook? A bill to “regulate the performance of social networks” in Mexico is due to be introduced in Congress this week by Senator Ricardo Monreal. The proposed bill would regulate social network companies like Twitter and Facebook on a national scale and would prevent them from censuring accounts of people or entities that
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In an editorial published on Friday, Jan. 22, the U.S.-based financial and media firm Bloomberg alleged that Mexico’s war on drugs has “taken a turn for the worse.” Focusing heavy on the bilateral fallout related to the controversial Salvador Cienfuegos case, the opinion article focuses on the dangerous consequences of a lack of bilateral cooperation in curbing
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF For the second year in a row — and the second in Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) first two years of his six-year term — Mexico has registered more violent deaths than during any previous administration. According to official figures released in a report Thursday, Jan. 21, by the government’s own Executive
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO Welcomes Biden Newly instated U.S. President Joe Biden’s inaugural speech on Wednesday, Jan. 20, was welcomed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who said it was full of good news. Asked during his Thursday, Jan. 21, press conference whether he felt threatened by Biden, AMLO responded: “We have nothing to object to. On the
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By KELIN DILLON With the newest U.S. President Joseph Biden inaugurated on Wednesday, Jan. 20, questions have arisen in Mexico about what type of relationship will transpire between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the new Biden administration in the years to come. In his daily press conference on the morning of the inauguration, López Obrador said the
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