By KELIN DILLON Following the apprehension of former Mexican Federal Attorney General (FGR) Jesús Murillo Karam on Friday, Aug. 19, for his purported role in covering up the still-unsolved disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students in 2014, Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard announced his intention to go after the former head of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) Tomás Zerón
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Digging up Mexico’s Uncomfortable Past History
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By KELIN DILLON Following the Aug. 19 arrest of former Mexican Attorney General (FGR) Jesús Murillo Karam, who now faces life in prison following his purported role in the unsolved Ayotzinapa case surrounding 43 missing students, journalist for daily Mexican newspaper El Universal and political analyst Carlos Loret de Moa released a scathing criticism detailing his seven takeaways from the
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The Arrest of Former Mexican Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Former Mexican Federal Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam was arrested on Friday, Aug. 19, and subsequently interned in the North Prison for his alleged involvement in the Ayotzinapa case, the as-yet unsolved disappearance of 43 education school students in Iguala, Guerrero, in September 2014. Murillo Karam arrived Saturday, Aug. 20, at the North Prison in a government
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO After more than three years of her detainment without bail — and just hours after the arrest of former Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam for his alleged ordering of the disappearances of 43 Ayotzinapa education school students in 2014 — Mexico’s Federal Attorney General Office¿ (FGR) late Friday, Aug. 19, ordered the immediate release of former Secretary
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By JESSICA GUERRERO Mexico’s independent life as a republic began in 1821, 200 years ago. But the first hundred years of the country’s autonomy were dizzying and plagued with numerous internal conflicts. These events and circumstances unleashed the Mexican Revolution that broke out in 1910, and consisted of a civil war between several regional revolutionary forces against the authoritarian regime of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The investigation into the disappearance and execution of 43 rural Mexican normal school students on the night of Sept. 26, 2014, is getting more tangled up as the days go by, nearly five years after the fact. Over the past week, judges have been releasing the confessed culprits, not because they are innocent, but because their cases were
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico City’s streets were filled with demonstrations this past week calling for the “appearance, dead or alive” of 43 normal school students who went missing on the “night of Iguala,” Sept. 26-27, 2014, in the southern state of Guerrero. Four years later, there is one similarity between now and then. In 2014, President Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The top criticism of outgoing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and his governance team has been repeated time and time again. “They just don’t understand that they don’t understand,” was the general consensus of top columnists and political observers across Mexico as the president sent his last State of the Nation Address to the joint session of Congress (the
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