The Continuing Esquivel Plagiarism Saga, Season Two
According to the literary experts’ analysis, about 46.5 percent of Esquivel’s thesis was plagiarized
Read moreTag Archives: El País
Former President Salinas de Gortari Granted Spanish Nationality
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who served as the country’s head of state from 1988 to 1994, was granted Spanish nationality in May of this year, after proving Sephardic Jewish ancestry, the Spanish daily newspaper El País reported on Sunday, Oct. 30. In what some see as a hedge against possible political persecution and extradition
Read moreSegalmex Buys 465 Million Pesos Worth of Sugar from Ghost Company
By MARK LORENZANA The Mexican Food System (Segalmex), an agency created by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in 2018, allegedly entered into a contract with a ghost company in April 2020 and purchased 25,000 tons of sugar worth 465 million pesos, of which only 7,800 tons were delivered. Servicios Integrales Carregin, the alleged ghost company, has already been
Read moreSegalmex Plagued with Irregularities of at Least 9.5 Billion Pesos
By MARK LORENZANA Allegations of fraud have plagued the Mexican Food System (Segalmex), an agency created by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — the latest of which involves irregularities of at least 9.5 billion pesos, according to a report by Mexican daily newspaper Reforma on Tuesday, July 26. In the Reforma report, Segalmex in 2021 allegedly failed to
Read moreDebanhi Escobar’s Murder Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
OPINION By MEREL HAENEN After a 13-day nationwide manhunt, the lifeless body of missing Mexican teenager Debanhi Escobar was finally discovered on Thursday, April 21, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, inside an abandoned cistern just a few hundred meters from where she was last seen on the morning of her disappearance, in the early hours of Saturday, April 9. That much
Read moreAMLO Says US Financing Campaign against him, Will Confront Biden
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Thursday, Feb. 17, that the United States is “financing” a media smear campaign against him and his government, and that he intends to confront President Joe Biden about the matter. Calling the alleged campaign “an act of political interference” by a foreign government into Mexican internal
Read moreAMLO Launches his Media Wall of Shame
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) launched his media wall of shame on Wednesday, June 30, and, not surprisingly, the list of alleged “fake news” purveyors included most of his favorite punching bags: Reforma, El Universal and El Financiero. all media ranked among the most credible in the country. The parade of “despicable” media reports for
Read moreSalgado Macedonio’s Daughter Takes Over his Candidacy
By KELIN DILLON After the cancellation of the controversial candidacy of Guerrero gubernatorial hopeful and alleged rapist Félix Salgado Macedonio by the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF), the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) needed to quickly hunt down a replacement for the post, and apparently found it in Salgado Macedonio’s eldest daughter, Evelyn Salgado Pineda, despite heavy criticism from
Read moreThe Misguided Quixote: AMLO Against the World
By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), incensed by District Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro’s suspension of his controversial reform to Mexico’s electricity sector the previous day, launched a public tirade against anyone and everyone he deemed his enemies, ranging from foreign countries to his own presidential predecessors, during his daily press conference on the morning of
Read moreOn Gubernatorial Crises, the US and Mexico Take Different Approaches
By KELIN DILLON As protests continue in Mexico against National Regeneration Movement (Morena) gubernatorial candidate for Guerrero Félix Salgado Macedonio, who has been accused of the alleged rape and sexual assault of several women, a similar case has arisen in the United States against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s purported inappropriate behavior, showing a stark contrast between how the two
Read more