PULSE NEWS MEXICO According to a report published by the Latin American online newspaper Infobae on Wednesday, Aug. 17, Mexican Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera may currently be under investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for allegedly involvement in laundering drug money. Infobae said that the investigation into the cardinal was linked to a separate investigation into Mexican
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Thursday, Jan. 27, the daily newspaper Infobae published an article noting that in 90 percent of the legal cases “investigated” by the Mexican government’s so-called Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists (MPPDDHP), no convictions are ever delivered. This figure came from the administration’s own Interior Secretariat (SeGob), which oversees the MPPDDHP office, following
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It was bad enough that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted public consulta (referendum) on Sunday, Aug. 1, to decide whether to prosecute his predecessors for their alleged misdeeds was a total disaster in terms of turnout (early estimates put eligible voter participation at between 7.07 and 7.74 percent; the final count was 7.11 percent),
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