AMLO Retaliates Against Amparo to Stop Speaking on Gálvez
The federal executive announced he will denounce the judge who issued the amparo against him, Martín Santos, in front of Mexico’s Federal Judicial Council
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Bankrupt Interjet to Auction Assets to Pay 40 Billion-Peso Debt
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
Read moreFormer Tamaulipas Governor Sentenced to Nine Years in US Prison
Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba was sentenced to nine years in prison by U.S. District Judge Rolando Olvera for accepting over $3.5 million in bribe money and using it to fraudulently purchase property in the United States
Read moreMexico’s First Female Supreme Court Chief Justice Named
Monday’s election required three voting rounds before Piña earned the six out of 11 votes she needed to take the SCJN presidency
Read moreThou Shalt Not Kill
OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE The Catholic Church has raised its critical voice on the distressing issue of crime in Mexico, all in good time. The call prompted me to talk with my friend, the Catholic poet Julio Hubard, about the ethical responsibility of the state to defend its citizens. Enrique Krauze: The government has wanted to surround the “hugs, not
Read moreNavigating Mexico: An Inexpensive CYA Insurance Document
By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Few people in Mexico — especially foreigners — are aware of a very inexpensive legal document that could be a godsend for those situations when you suspect that something might go astray in the future. For example: “I’ve paid my rent, but my landlord hasn’t given me a receipt.” “My car’s front license plate was
Read moreJudge Refuses to Budge on Stoppage of Tren Maya Project
PULSE NEWS MEXICO In yet another chapter in the continuing saga of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) come-hell-or-high-water Tren Maya tourist train project versus the Mexican legal system, a judge in the Mérida, Yucatán, reiterated on Monday, July 25, his previous order for the definitive suspension of works of the train’s Section 5 South. On May 30, the federal
Read moreNavy Helicopter Sixth to Crash under AMLO’s Watch
By MARK LORENZANA The Black Hawk helicopter of Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) that left 14 sailors dead after crashing in Los Mochis in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa on Friday, July 15, was the sixth helicopter to have figured in a crash under the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) since 2019. According to
Read moreCRE Halts Iberdrola Wind Farm Operation in Guanajuato
By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) prevented Spanish energy company Iberdrola from operating a wind farm in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato. Iberdrola had invested a total of $150 million in the wind farm. According to the CRE, its decision to stop the wind farm’s operations stemmed from a breach in permit that originally allowed Iberdrola to
Read moreMexican Church Leader Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison
By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, June 8, the leader of Mexico’s controversial La Luz del Mundo Church, Naasón Joaquín García, son of church founder Eusebio Joaquín González, was sentenced to 16 years and 8 months in a U.S. prison by a judge in Los Angeles on charges surrounding his sexual abuse of three minor girls in his congregation. Originally arrested
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