By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite a dramatic 74 percent uptick in violent crimes, a 7.3 percent increase in poverty, a contraction of the national economy every year since he took office, and, lest we forget, a dismal mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of nearly 260,000 Mexicans (and that’s just based on the official numbers, outside
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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
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Va Por México alliance, which consists of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), denounced its opposition, the in-power leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) for using the country’s judicial branch to persecute its opponents and critics, specifically referring to the new charges
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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
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By KELIN DILLON Nine months after he became president of the Electoral Tribunal of Mexico’s Federal Judicial Branch (TEPJF), Judge José Luis Vargas was dismissed from his role by his fellow judges in the judicial body, with five out of the seven voting for his removal on Wednesday, Aug. 4, though controversy has ensued since as Vargas has refused to
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By KELIN DILLON After much controversy over the subject, Mexico’s Secretary of Health Jorge Alcocer, former Secretary of the Treasury Arturo Herrera, and head of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) Thalía Lagunas are facing criminal complaints of contempt with the country’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) over their role in failing to deliver life-saving drugs to
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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
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s auto parts exports increased by 27.5 percent in the first four months of 2021, compared to the same period in 2020, according to the National Auto Parts Industry Association (INA). The surge — the largest increase since 2010 — was primarily the result of the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which
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By KELIN DILLON In the first three years of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) has acted in López Obrador’s favor four times at his direct suggestion, leaving the institution’s impartiality in question. Recently, the FGR announced its case against former Secretary of the Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal for illegal
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican businessman and founder of the budget Interjet airlines Miguel Alemán Magnani, for whom the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) issued an arrest warrant on Thursday, July 8, for alleged tax evasion, apparently left the country in January and has not returned since. According to a statement from the National Migration Institute (INM), the
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