OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a growing number of Latin America’s leftist leaders join forces, threatening to boycott the upcoming Ninth Summit of the Americas that is slated to take place in Los Angeles from June 6 through June 10, unless it includes the participation of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, the once-crucial hemispheric meeting could potentially become irrelevant. Both Mexican
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON After a brutal rebuff of his constitutional energy reform by opposition members of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies this past April, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is on a quest for vengeance against these so-called “traitors of the nation” – a warpath, it seems, that will now put opponents to the energy reform, both politicians
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had a 52-minute telephone conference with U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday, April 29, to discuss the surging immigration problem along the binational border, just as the United States is poised to lift the covid-era Title 42 ruling that has blocked migrants from crossing into the country
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF >A U.S. judge late Monday, April 25, ruled in favor of a string of Republican-led states seeking to prevent the Joe Biden administration from ending a pandemic-era immigration rule that prevents unvaccinated migrants from entering the United States. Title 42, which was put into effect under former U.S. President Donald Trump in March 2020,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Joe Biden administration on Thursday, April 21, announced that it will simplify the legal processing of Ukrainian refugees seeking asylum from Europe, but will no longer allow migrants from that war-torn country to enter from Mexico. The new streamlined program, due to take effect on Monday, April 25, will fast-track some 100,000 refugee
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Four members of the U.S. Senate, led by Bob Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, April 6,stating that there is mounting evidence that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is attacking the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly 1,000 Ukrainians who fled to Mexico after Russia’s violent invasion of their country and who have been waiting in Tijuana to enter the United States were moved to a sports center converted into a makeshift shelter on Monday, April 4, Mexican government sources said. The Ukrainians, about 30 percent of whom are children,
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite the fact that U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry said Thursday, March 31, after a five-hour meeting with Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), that the Mexican president had agreed to make adjustments to his proposed electricity reform to ensure that it complies with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and to respect all
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With the May 23 end of U.S. pandemic restrictions that have blocked migrants from entering the United States on health grounds, that country is facing a surge of undocumented immigrants entering from Mexico from 5,000 daily arrivals in February to about 18,000 a day late next month. On Friday, April 1, the Joe Biden
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