By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A federal judge on Thursday, May 19, dealt Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) a major judicial setback by ordering the dismissal of a case filed against three lawyers by fellow lawyer Juan Ramón Collado accusing them of extortion. Collado, who previously served as former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s most trustworthy legal advisor, is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just one month after Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) dismissed Federal Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero’s unfounded case against his in-laws for the alleged “negligent homicide” of his 82-year-old brother, who died in hospital from a heart attack stemming from a chronic heart condition in 2015, Julio Scherer Ibarra, former legal adviser to President
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Julio Scherer Ibarra, former legal advisor to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), accused Federal Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero and Senator and former Interior Secretary (SeGob) Olga Sánchez Cordero on Saturday, March 19, of plotting against him to “soil his name” with a dissemination of misinformation campaign. In an interview published in
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Julio Scherer’s Response to the Pandora Papers
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Pandora Papers, which were released on Sunday, Oct. 3, by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), exposing the offshore financial havens and hidden riches of some of the world’s biggest movers and shakers, has opened a whole new can of worms for the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS More than 3,000 Mexicans — including three billionaires and a former close advisor to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — have been implicated in the so-called Pandora Papers, a trove of more than 11.8 million documents collected by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) that exposes secretive offshore accounts that allowed government leaders, financial tycoons
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Wednesday, Sept. 2, that lawyer María Estela Ríos González will assume the role of his chief legal counselor, a seat opened by the exit of the president’s former counselor Julio Scherer Ibarra. After thanking Scherer Ibarra (whose exodus had been foretold by rumors across partisan divides
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By ADRIANA GARCIA VALDERRAMA On Wednesday, April 27, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) defended his government’s top judicial advisor Julio Scherer Ibarra who one day earlier ruffled feathers by stating that reporters’ voices should be silenced. The declaration was taken as an invitation for censorship. Speaking during his daily morning press conference, AMLO called Scherer Ibarra “a good
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