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Lozoya Spotted Dining in High-End Mexico City Restaurant
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya — who is supposed to be under house arrest while awaiting a trial for alleged embezzling and corruption — was photographed on Saturday, Oct. 9, dining at the upscale Hunan Chinese restaurant in Mexico City’s posh Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec. The photographs, taken by columnist Lourdes Mendoza of El Financiero
Read moreJudge Censures Gertz’s Public Speech in Robles Trial
By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Oct. 4, Mexico’s Third District Judge of Amparo in Mexico City Criminal Matters ruled that Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero may not continue to speak on the alleged guilt of former Secretary of Social Development Rosario Robles in her ongoing legal process, citing Gertz’s previously public discussion on the topic as interfering with her
Read moreMexican Attorney General’s Arbitrary Belief in Accused Pemex Bribes
By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) seemingly believes everything that disgraced former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya’s claims surrounding who received bribes during his time at the company, despite several witnesses offering testimony to the contrary. After admitting himself to have received bribes from corrupt Brazilian company Odebrecht after his extradition back to Mexico in
Read moreAnaya Solidifies Exile After Summons From Attorney General
By KELIN DILLON Just two days after former Mexican presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya released a video proclaiming his innocence, he has now announced his full exile from Mexico after the country’s Attorney General-s Office (FGR) summoned him to appear in Mexico City’s North Prison for a hearing this upcoming Thursday,Aug. 26. “In times of autocrats like President Andrés Manuel López
Read moreFormer Presidential Candidate Anaya Claims Persecution by AMLO
By KELIN DILLON In a video published on Saturday, Aug. 21, former Mexican presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya claimed he was being persecuted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and noted he would be outside of Mexico for some time, though his present location still remains unknown. Likewise, National Action Party (PAN) President Marko Cortés claimed he recently spoke to
Read moreMexican Attorney General Investigates Past President’s Allies
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) is apparently investigating the financial operators of former President Enrique Peña Nieto and his Secretary of the Treasury Luis Videgaray Caso, as well as those of former National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya Cortés, according to a report from the Milenio daily newspaper. Milenio said that those
Read moreThe Economist Compares AMLO to Cantinflas
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The highly respected British news magazine The Economist compared Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the late slapstick comedian Cantinflas in its Saturday, July 17 edition. “It is a question that might have been devised by Cantinflas, a comic actor who turned the Mexican taste for circumlocution into an absurdist art form,”
Read moreThe Real Reason for AMLO’s War on the Tamaulipas Governor
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since he first took office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been pushing to consolidating his institutional power by dismantling independent institutions, mandating constitutional rewrites and discrediting his opponents through unsubstantiated charges of criminal activity. One of the most notable victims of this latter political tactic has been the current governor
Read moreMexico News Roundup
By RICARDO CASTILLO Lozoya Case Postponed The start date for the trial of former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya Austin was postponed on request of the Mexican Attorney General’s Office due to pandemic-related complications. The deadline was supposed to be last Sunday, March 7. Judge José Artemio Zúñiga Mendoza, however, granted investigators more time to conclude the presentation of
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