Mexico’s Second District Judge in Commercial Insolvency Matters officially declared notorious Mexican airline Interjet as bankrupt and ordered the company’s assets to be put up for auction
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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 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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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) has issued an arrest warrant for grounded Interjet airlines founder and entrepreneur businessman Miguel Alemán Magnani for the alleged crime of tax evasion for the sum of 66.285 million pesos, judicial sources reported Thursday, July 8. Aléman Magnani — grandson of former Mexican President Miguel Alemán Valdés (1946-1952)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Covid Vaccine Trials Mexico will soon launch phase 3 trials of the Canadian-Chinese covid-19 vaccine called CanSino Biologics developed by Janssen Labs, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. The vaccine trials will be held in Mexico City, the Pacific Coast states of Michoacán, Guerrero and Oaxaca, and the northern border states Coahuila and Nuevo León, accross from
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By MÓNICA CHERRIE After abruptly cancelling all of its flights on Sunday, Nov. 1, and Monday, Nov. 2, Mexico’s third-largest airlines Interjet seemed to be on the verge of bankruptcy this week as rumors flew over buyouts and employee culling As of Thursday, Nov. 5, the low-cost airline’s website remained down, leaving nearly 3,000 passengers stranded, with no information as
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By KYLIE MADRY Do the Cabinet Shuffle While the resignation of Mexico’s Security and Public Protection Secretary Alfonso Durazo made headlines several weeks ago, more cabinet changes are coming, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). To replace Durazo, AMLO proposed Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who had been appointed to oversee Mexico’s sea ports and merchant shipping in July, during his
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The low-cost Mexican air carrier Interjet abruptly canceled all flights programmed for Sunday, Nov. 1. In a brief message sent out to all scheduled passengers, Interjet announced that the entirety of its 19 flights for Sunday would be suspended and reprogrammed starting on Tuesday, Nov. 3. The airline, based out of Mexico City, also
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By RICARDO CASTILLO In mid-July, former Mexican Treasury Secretary Carlos Urzúa, upon presenting his resignation to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), launched a frontal attack against AMLO’s Chief of Staff Alfonso Romo Garza in an interview. “It’s most difficult to understand the type of relationship, ideologically speaking, Romo has with the president,” Urzúa said. “He’s an extreme right-winger.” Urzúa
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By THE PULSE NEWSMEXICO STAFF After missing a 1 p.m. Interjet flight from Cordoba, Veracruz, to Mexico City on Sunday, Feb. 3, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) opted to return to the capital via land rather than wait for the next flight at 4 p.m., his spokesman Jesús Ramírez said. The president was in Cordoba to present his
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