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AMLO’s Son Accuses Senator, Journalist of Harassment

By MARK LORENZANA José Ramón López Beltrán, eldest son of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), warned Senator Xóchitl Gálvez of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) that he would take legal action against the legislator for “invading the property of others” and “not respecting” his “right to privacy.” “I reserve the right to take any legal action against

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César Duarte Sentenced to One-Year Preventive Detention

By MARK LORENZANA  As a precautionary measure, Mexican Control Judge Humberto Chávez on Sunday, June 5, ordered a one-year preventive detention (jail without bail) against César Horacio Duarte Jáquez, the former governor of Chihuahua and member of the centralist and once-all-powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), for alleged crimes of embezzlement and criminal association. Judge Chávez set the indictment for Wednesday,

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Pemex Head in Houston ‘Purchases’ Multimillion-Peso Mansion

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After it was revealed by the daily newspaper Reforma that Carmelina Esquer Camacho, director of Pemex Procurement International (PPI), a Texas-based subsidiary of Mexico’s state-owned oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), had acquired a residence in Houston valued at more than $400,000 (equivalent to about 8 million pesos) in late 2020, repeated requests to make

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Security Exchange’s Investigation of Pemex-Baker Hughes Case to Proceed

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican Senator Xóchitl Gálvez, a member of the country’s conservative National Action Party (PAN) opposition, said Tuesday, Feb. 22, that a conflict-of-interest complaint she filed with the U.S. Security Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this month had received the go-ahead to proceed with a financial audit of contracts between Mexico’s state-run Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company and the

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AMLO’s Son’s ‘Gray House’ Rental Never Registered in Houston

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The now-notorious million-dollar Texas mansion where Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) eldest son, José Ramón López Beltrán, resided for a year and which was owned by senior executive of the Baker Hughes company, a company that currently holds contracts with the López Obrador administration for more than $151 million in works for

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Loret de Mola Goes after AMLO in Washington Post Editorial

By KELIN DILLON In an opinion piece published in the Washington Post on Sunday, Feb. 6, Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola A. – a perennial target of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) public denouncements of Mexico’s modern media – detailed the regular attacks López Obrador has taken against the country’s journalists for reporting facts, calling journalism AMLO’s

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President’s Eldest Son Lives in Lap of Luxury

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In the latest edition of his weekly digital news program Latinus on Saturday, Jan. 29, internationally acclaimed journalist Carlos Loret de Mola presented a report on an extensive investigation, conducted in cooperation with the nonprofit Mexicans against Corruption, revealing the lush lifestyle of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO), José Ramón López Beltrán,

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Criminals Profit from Kidnapping and Extorting Migrants at Border

By KELIN DILLON As the flow of migrants to the border of the United States and Mexico has continued, criminal groups have seized the opportunity to exploit this already-marginalized group, extorting and kidnapping them as a new facet of their illicit enterprise. Rather than just charging exorbitant fees to traffic migrants through the border, these groups have begun holding them

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