By MARK LORENZANA Javier Coello Trejo, former lawyer of Emilio Lozoya Austin — the disgraced former CEO of Mexican state-run oil giant Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), who is currently in custody on corruption charges — said on Tuesday, June 28, that he will file a lawsuit for moral damages against Mexican Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero. On Thursday, June 23,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Just in case anyone still had any doubts, the old Mexican political system embedded in the once-governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) seems to be composed not only of a pack of thieving scoundrels, but also of cowards. The reaction of some of the leading members of whatever is left of the PRI to the arrest earlier this
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Lozoya Nabbed in Malaga Former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya Austin was finally found and arrested in Malaga, Spain, by the Spanish police. The news was broken personally in radio interviews on Wednesday, Feb. 12, by Fiscal General Alejandro Gertz Manero. “It was a long pilgrimage (to track down Lozoya Austin) with the arrest warrant we
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Just when former President Enrique Peña Nieto thought Mexicans had forgotten him forever and ever, his name hit back in the news bigtime again on Tuesday, June 18, when a Mexico City daily ran a leaked report linking him to a corruption investigation that occurred during his 2012-2018 shift in office. The news item stated that the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The financial-political scandal in Mexico that is threatening to become a perfect storm is nothing new. It’s been in the making for 28 years now, but in the bat of an eye this week, two arrest warrants were issued by the Fiscal Attorney General of the Republic. That’s what this story is about. On Tuesday,
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