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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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican lawyer Juan Collado Mocelo — the so-called advocate of the country’s former political elite — filed a formal complaint last year before the federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR), against Julio Scherer, the former chief legal counselor of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), but the case never proceeded against Scherer. The complaint, which
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s either one or the other, no in between. Either Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is at war with the press, or the press is at war with him. Maybe both. Since being elected president of Mexico, AMLO has been taking a pummeling from the media on a daily basis. Of course, there are the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO New Supreme Court Judge The Mexican Senate elected Ana Margarita Ríos-Farjat as a new member of the country’s Supreme Court (SCJN). Up until now, lawyer Ríos-Farjat had been working as head of the nation’s Tributary Administrative System (SAT), the Treasury Secretariat unit that oversees the nation’s tax collection. Ríos-Farjat received 94 votes from the senators (a minimum
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … The new pro-visible labeling law passed unanimously in Mexico’s 500-voting member Chamber of Deputies…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s been five full weeks since Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) won the Mexican presidential election. You’d think that he would be immediately recognized for his victory, at least with the moniker of “president-elect,” but in the national press, the moniker has instead been “virtual president-elect.” But as of Wednesday, Aug. 8, this situation will change. The Federal
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