PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Porfirio Muñoz Ledo — a former Mexican ambassador to the United Nations, former federal deputy, former staunch supporter of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), founding member of the left-leading Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), former presidential wannabe and current ambassador to Cuba — said Thursday, June 2, that the AMLO administration is in bed
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Over the weekend, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) paid a visit to the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, home of infamous drug lord and founder of the Sinaloa Cartel Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, currently in a U.S. high-security prison on 17 counts of homicide, drug trafficking, conspiracy, organized crime against health, money laundering, homicide and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. government announced Wednesday, Dec. 15, that it will pay up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of any of the four sons of renowned Sinaloa drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. The announcement was made through the U.S. State Department and specified the names of the four sons,: Ovidio
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of infamous drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman, was sentenced to three years in a U.S. federal prison on Tuesday, Nov. 30, for her alleged involvement in her husband’s Sinaloa Drug Cartel. The 32-year-old Coronel Aispuro, a former teenage beauty queen, had pleaded guilty on three federal counts, including money
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of infamous jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, is expected to plead guilty on Thursday, June 10, to charges of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar empire and aiding in one of his escapes from the high-security Mexican prison, according to a person familiar with the case. Coronel
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS INE Tells AMLO to Respect Democratic Process Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his bosom buddy Félix Salgado Macedonio just don’t know how to take “no” for an answer. After Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) banned Salgado Macedonio from running for governor of the Pacific state of Guerrero as AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Electricity Bill It will come as no surprise for most people in Mexico that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) Electricity Reform Bill was approved by the Chamber of Deputies, as programmed by Congress’ majority rule, now in the hands of the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party, and will now head to the Senate. If
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF For the second year in a row — and the second in Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) first two years of his six-year term — Mexico has registered more violent deaths than during any previous administration. According to official figures released in a report Thursday, Jan. 21, by the government’s own Executive
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A Birds Story Birds of a feather flock together, says the old adage. This week began with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, Jan. 11, visiting part of his “wonderful wall” in Alamo, a township just east to McAllen, along the Mexico-Texas border. He took the occasion to praise Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) with
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a scathing review of the Mexican president’s first two years in office, the highly acclaimed El Universal daily newspaper this weekend offered a point-by-point breakdown of some of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) most prominent failures, on the eve of his second State of the Nation Address, slated for Tuesday, Dec. 1. AMLO,
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