AMLO to Tell Truth about Culiacán Military Blunder
By RICARDO CASTILLO … Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised to make a “minute-by-minute” account of what really happened…
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The Abortion of an Arrest
By RICARDO CASTILLO … The official military version is that the authorities were in control of the situation and could have resisted fire from the drug cartel…
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Read moreNew Arrest Warrant for Lozoya Is A Family Affair
By RICARDO CASTILLO What came as a shock to the Mexican political system last Friday, July 5, was not that the nation’s fiscal (attorney) general managed to get a judge to issue him yet another arrest warrant against former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya Austin, but that the arrest warrant also included his mother, wife and sister, Gilda Austin,
Read moreImproving Cooperation against Drugs
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreThree Real Emergencies the US Must Address on its Southern Border
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE (The following article first appeared in the U.S. political website “The Hill” and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) The negotiations in Washington over security at the U.S. southern border should focus on three of the real emergencies that are causing widespread human suffering and exacting high costs in both the United States and Mexico: illegal drug trafficking
Read moreAll the (Former) Presidents’ Men (and an Ex-President to Boot)
By RICARDO CASTILLO What was the political gossip this week in Mexico? Definitely, the “denunciations” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) made of nine past officials for stealing money from the near-bankrupt, still-government-run electricity monopoly, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). As we covered in Pulse News Mexico, on Monday, Feb. 11, the president, during his daily press conference at the National Palace in downtown Mexico City,
Read moreNarcos: Transnational Cartels and Border Security
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreGarcía Luna Jumps to His Own Defense
By RICARDO CASTILLO Never mind that the Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán trial is raging full-speed ahead in a Brooklyn federal courthouse. What local Mexican politicos are really concerned about is the defecation hitting the fan and spreading all over the face of a now-outcast police commander. And mind you, he’s reacting the same way that any normal honest citizen would. , who according
Read moreAMLO’s Trio of Dubious Appointments
By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s been barely a month since Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) won the July 1 election, and he is already raising eyebrows — not so much for his victory, but because some of the nominations he has made. Particularly grabbing attention are the appointments of several persons to his energy management cabinet. Definitely, the least
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