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Not Bad for AMLO’s First 100 Days

By RICARDO CASTILLO     Among the top achievements that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) managed to accomplish and pass through Congress during his first 100 days, as noted in the address he delivered on Monday, March 11, at the National Palace in Mexico City are three laws: The Law of Eminent Domain, which gives the federal government the authority

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Three 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

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El Chapo Found Guilty on All Counts

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF     Notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was found guilty by a New York jury on all 10 counts brought against him on Tuesday, Feb. 12. After a scandalous three-month trial that implicated numerous high-ranking members of the previous Mexican administration – including former President Enrique Peña Nieto – and six days

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García 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

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Is AMLO’s “New” National Guard Just More of the Same?

By RICARDO CASTILLO     For a prelude to a presidency, surely that of Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has got too many dissonant chords. First it was his decision to control oil crude production that caused a market shakeup and further peso devaluation. Then came the cancelation of the ongoing construction of the new airport that sent markets skidding and pumped the

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The Night of the Iguala Massacre

By RICARDO CASTILLO     Mexico City’s streets were filled with demonstrations this past week calling for the “appearance, dead or alive” of 43 normal school students who went missing on the “night of Iguala,” Sept. 26-27, 2014, in the southern state of Guerrero. Four years later, there is one similarity between now and then. In 2014, President Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN)

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US Severing of NAFTA Ties Harms Much More than Trade

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.) U.S. ties with Mexico and Canada touch the daily lives of more Americans than ties between any other two countries in the world. Trade, border connections, tourism, family ties and mutual security concerns link us closely,

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