OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Who says that corruption and nepotistic malfeasance are not well and alive and flourishing in Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party? Certainly not anyone with an inkling of honest impartiality and nonpartisan fairness. Just this Wednesday, Nov. 24, the daily newspaper Reforma pointed out that the government of Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF New reports have revealed that a lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel has assumed partial control of the trafficking of migrants from countries like Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba into Mexico and up toward the United States, charging $22,000 per person moved from South and Central America up to the U.S.-Mexico border. The alleged lieutenant, only
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By KELIN DILLON During his daily press conference on the morning of Wednesday, July 14, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) presented the second iteration of his new “Who’s Who of Media Lies of the Week” segment, continuing his tirade against news publications and media outlets which don’t speak in direct favor of him. This week, López Obrador reiterated
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A long-term drought has struck more than two-thirds of Mexico’s farmlands, and environmentalists are warning that the situation is only going to get worse in the weeks ahead due to soaring temperatures, severe crop damage and impending water supply shortages. But as experts desperately try to sound the alarm that climate change is already taking a toll
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS One day after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) premiered the new “Who’s Who of Media Lies of the Week” segment of his daily two-hour (or more) press conference, El Universal newspaper (one of the prime targets of his media wall of shame) published its own lies registry on Thursday, July 1, noting that the true
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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
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A day late and a dollar short does not even begin to describe the backlog of direly needed medications that the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) has failed to provide in Mexico. After six months, the UNOPS, the organization to which the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) paid 2.389 billion pesos
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Ever at odds with the media — both national and international –Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Wednesday, June 23, that he will soon be adding a new weekly segment to his daily press conferences, in which he will list those publications and broadcasters that he considers to be presenting “false
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By KELIN DILLON More than a dozen members of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) team of assistants have quickly transcended their roles at his side into high-level government positions, a new report from El Universal has shown. The former assistants have been handed jobs in places ranging from the country’s Tax Administrative Service (SAT) to the National Commission
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By KELIN DILLON Since Mexico’s elections took place on June 6, the country’s rate of vaccination against covid-19 has continuously declined, while its number of positive cases has shot up dramatically, leading to a microscopic analysis from experts on just why Mexico’s fight against coronavirus has gone sideways, again. Secretary of the Treasury Arturo Herrera had warned in cabinet meetings
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