By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) on Friday, Sept. 4, denied the political organization founded by former President Felipe Calderón and his wife Margarita Zavala the right to be considered a political party. The group, known as Libertad y Responsabilidad Democrática (Freedom and Democratic Responsibility), or simply México Libre (Free Mexico), was denied the right
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party’s national council voted unanimously to sponsor a nationwide signature collecting campaign to request a public referendum on whether or not to launch legal inquiries into the alleged crimes of corruption by former presidents, specifically, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Vicente Fox Quesada, Felipe
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By KITZIA NIN PONIATOWSKA In 17 months of poor governance, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has surpassed his predecessors Carlos Salinas de Gortari in terms of currency devaluation, Ernesto Zedillo in terms of economic recession, Vicente Fox in incompetency, Felipe Calderón in the number of homicides and Enrique Peña Nieto in terms of corruption and ignorance. In less
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By RICARDO CASTILLO What was the political gossip this week in Mexico? Definitely, the “denunciations” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) made of nine past officials for stealing money from the near-bankrupt, still-government-run electricity monopoly, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). As we covered in Pulse News Mexico, on Monday, Feb. 11, the president, during his daily press conference at the National Palace in downtown Mexico City,
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eNapoleón Gómez Urrutia, head of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union. Photo: veracruzenlasnoticas.com By RICARDO CASTILLO The wheel of fortune has made a full circle for Mexican Senator Napoleón Gómez Urrutia. In 2006, Gómez Urrutia, then — and still — leader of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union, fled Mexico Canada-bound, charged with a $55 million embezzlement of union funds. Had he
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) presented a list on Monday, Feb. 11, of nine high-ranking former government officials – including former President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa — who he said either worked for or collaborated with foreign companies in the electricity sector and contributed to á gradual destruction of the state-owned National Electricity Commission (CFE) that led
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In response to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) repeated Robert Owen-esque (“save me and thee”) tirades that all previous government leaders were corrupt and had sold the country out for personal gain, former President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, who served between 2006 and 2012, issued a tweet on Monday, Feb. 4, stating that he categorically
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