By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) exonerated the controversial General Salvador Cienfuegos of any wrongdoing on Jan. 14, following the country’s former defense secretary’s extradition from the United States late last year, drawing intense criticism from U.S. authorities. Cienfuegos was arrested on Oct. 15, 2020, by U.S. officials in Los Angeles on drug trafficking and money
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Based on the evidence presented to Mexico by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Mexico’s Attorney General (FGR) dropped all legal charges against the country’s former defense secretary, Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, late Thursday, Jan. 14, an decision that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) openly supported during his morning press conference on Friday,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A Birds Story Birds of a feather flock together, says the old adage. This week began with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, Jan. 11, visiting part of his “wonderful wall” in Alamo, a township just east to McAllen, along the Mexico-Texas border. He took the occasion to praise Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) with
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) released on Monday, Dec. 21, the text of a “note of estrangement” in regards to the arrest and temporary detention of former Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos. Here is a translation of part of that note: “The Secretariat of Foreign Relations (SRE) — through the directorate of relations for North America — affectuously
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Banxico Law Postponement The Mexican Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, Dec. 15, announced it was postponing the debate on the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) Bill approved last week by the Senate until February. Deputies Chamber President Laura Rojas made the announcement on social media after the majority National Regeneration Movement (Morena) insisted on discussing and voting on
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By RICARDO CASTILLO New Dollar Revenues Law The Mexican Senate approved a bill on Wednesday, Dec. 9, stipulating that all foreign currencies income flowing into Mexico should stay in the nation and not be allowed to be repatriated to the country of its origin. The board of directors of Mexico’s central bank, Banco de Mexico (Banxico), immediately challenged the bill,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO Reshuffles his Queens The reshuffling of women in the Mexican presidential cabinet that was announced on Monday, Dec. 7, may not be to the liking of many, but the dice have already rolled and the shots stand. The problem with the five reappointed women in the cabinet of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is not
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ominous Holiday Warning After expert epidemiologists forecast an ominous surge of covid-19 infections for January, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) issued a public call on Friday, Dec. 4, for people to avoid attending traditional holiday “posadas” gatherings, which usually begin in mid-December and run through Christmas Eve, and to stay home as much as possible
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
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