By MARK LORENZANA Javier May, director of Mexico’s National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur), promised residents from the town of Pomuch in the southeast Mexican state of Campeche that the profits from the Tren Maya — one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial pet megaprojects — will be used to increase pension payments to senior citizens.
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By MARK LORENZANA Senator Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas, former president of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) — who also served as secretary of foreign affairs and secretary of tourism under former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto — is open to running for the presidency of Mexico in 2024 to challenge the ruling party, Mexican President Andrés Manuel Obrador’s (AMLO)
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican Attorney General’s Office (FGR) announced late Tuesday, Aug. 2, that the federal Prosecutor’s Office is currently conducting an investigation into former President Enrique Peña Nieto on three counts of potential corruption: electoral crimes, money laundering and illicit enrichment-. In a written statement Tuesday night, the FGR said that it the investigation was sparked by various
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By MARK LORENZANA According to former negotiators and specialists in a report by Mexican daily newspaper El Universal on Sunday, July 24, Mexico specifically violated Chapters 14, 15, 22 and 32 of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). When the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) accepted Chapters 14, 15, 22 and 32 of the agreement — titled
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Just two days after it was revealed that the Mexican Treasury Secretariat’s (Hacienda) Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) was investigating the financial dealings of previous President Enrique Peña Nieto on possible charges of embezzlement and/or money laundering, it was reported Saturday, July 9, that the FIU is also conducting a financial investigation into other former presidents, including Ernesto
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is investigating former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto for allegedly receiving wire transfers amounting to 26 million pesos. On the morning of Thursday, July 7, during the daily press conference of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Pablo Gómez Álvarez, head of the FIU, said that the money transfers were allegedly made by a direct
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Today in Mexico, there are three main contenders for the 2024 presidential candidacy of current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party: Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Interior (SeGob) Secretary Adán Augusto López Hernández, and Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón. Of these three, the most viable is
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO With the shooting death of Noé Ornelas Sanguino, mayor of the town of Villa Jiménez, in the northwestern Mexican state of Michoacán, whose body was found on an abandoned stretch of highway on Monday, June 27, there have been at least 59 mayors and municipal alderman murdered so far under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López
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By MARK LORENZANA The soil of the fourth section of Mexico City’s Chapultepec Forest, which is currently being developed as a new tourist area with a number of added attractions, was found to be contaminated with high levels of mercury and arsenic, exceeding the limits allowed by the Official Mexican Standard (NOM) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Chapultepec Forest’s
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It isn’t hard to find dirt on Mexico’s Maccise family, a devious mafia of media power and political imposition based out of Toluca, in the State of Mexico (EdoMéx), that has used its money and political clout to influence elections, silence reporters and bulldoze legislation for its own agenda for more than three decades. The family’s
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