By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum offered the relatives of the 26 fatal victims of the May 3 Line 12 Metro crash a financial compensation of just 650,000 pesos (about $32,500) each, the families filed a joint action law suit against the city late Friday, May 7. In an interview with El Financiero newspaper,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s inflation rate soared to 6.1 percent in April, its highest level since the year 2000, according to figures released on Friday, May 7, by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). The federal government’s inflation rate is based on the prices of the country’s basic food basket, food and household products that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The problems with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s controversial Santa Lucía Airport project just keep adding up. In addition to work delays and over-expenditures, a high rate of workplace accidents and countless lawsuits over its prioritization and the cancelation of the previous private-sector New International Mexico Airport (NAIM) — not to mention the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a series of accusations of sexual abuse and rape began to mount against Mexican businessman and internationally recognized thinker Andrés Roemer Slomianski, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) formally ordered his arrest him on Wednesday, May 5. According to the FGR, after extensive investigation, it decided that there was sufficient evidence against Roemer for
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s official. Both Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) that oversees it have now ruled definitively on Wednesday, April 28, that both Félix Salgado Macedonio (with an impressive political portfolio of legal accusations against him, running the gamut from alleged serial rapist to assumed multi-million peso embezzler to probable lackey for drug cartels)
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s controversial Tren Maya tourist train, a pet project of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) that both national and international environmentalists have repeatedly warned could destroy over half of the Yucatan’s fragile species, will also leave more than 3,000 mostly indigenous Mexican families homeless, according to report published in El Universal newspaper on
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Work at Mexico’s controversial new Santa Lucia airport field is coming along right on track, according to government sources. Of course, the field in question is not Santa Lucía’s airfield, but its baseball field. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who has made no secret of his personal penchant for the sport (even though the majority
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to a study conducted by the Mexican daily newspaper El Financiero, national public support for the “mañanera” morning conferences of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) fell from 49 percent to just 37 percent between March and April, placing their popularity at the lowest point so far in the president’s administration. The survey,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite protests from legalists, constitutionalists and lawmakers alike — including from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) own leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party — the president’s “initiative” to extend the four-year term of Supreme Court Chief Justice Zalvídar easily passed the Mexican Congress on Friday, April 23. The controversial bill, which extends Zaldívar’s stint another two
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is slated to meet with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in a virtual conference on Friday, May 7. The main topic of conversation during that meeting will be the growing migration crisis, which has led to a flood of undocumented migrants — including many unaccompanied minors — crossing
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