By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A full 17 months after his extradition to Mexico from Spain, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) asked a federal judge to sentence former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya to 39 years in prison for allegedly taking bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. In a letter delivered to Judge Artemio Zúñiga Mendoza of
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By KELIN DILLON Just more than a week after Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) opened an investigation into six councilors of the autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) on Dec. 24 for their role in postponing the proposed revocation mandate, INE President Lorenzo Córdova requested the FGR to close the investigation, claiming it was based on “clearly nonexistent alleged
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) publicly revealed the excessive spending habits of controversial Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero, details about the documents Gertz’s own in-laws delivered to the FIU outlining his irregular financial practices surrounding some $7.9 million have come to light. The FIU
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By KELIN DILLON Following an investigation by Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), financial records tracking the spending of controversial Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero and recently disgraced former FIU head Santiago Nieto showed the two officials’ extravagant spending habits, doling out millions and millions of pesos for exotic cars, luxury properties
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With more than 24,500 people reported missing during the first three years of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, and a total of more than 94,000 missing persons with no explanation as to their whereabouts, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) sent a select team of researchers on an official
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after former Mexican presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya released an interview with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) detailing his perceived persecution by current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) once again has prepared to launch a warrant for Anaya’s arrest on Monday, Nov. 8. After multiple attempts to
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Nov. 3, former CEO of Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Emilio Ricardo Lozoya Austin went to court for his role in the Odebrecht case, an international corruption scheme in which Lozoya allegedly received $10 million in bribes for his participation, to request an extension on his lawyers’ investigation and ended up having his
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By KELIN DILLON If Mario Aburto, the confessed killer of Mexican politician Luis Donaldo Colosio, has further information about the 1994 incident’s true events, he will be offered protection, said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on the morning of Thursday, Oct. 28. “If Aburto and the family have something to say about his legal process that reveals another
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS If there is anything that distinguishes Mexico’s federal judicial system under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) it is a lack of any semblance of real justice. Led by AMLO buddy Alejandro Gertz Manero — who famously (or better said, infamously) has repeatedly tried to jail his 94-year-old sister-in-law on charges of murder of his brother, who
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By KELIN DILLON As files from the controversial Odebrecht case, that name former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and his former Treasury Secretary Luis Videgaray as participants in the scheme, have recently been sent to the organized crime unit of Mexico’s Attorney General of the Public (FGR), formal accusations and charges are anticipated to soon follow against the nation’s former
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