By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE I’ve heard it asked time and time again: What if I am arrested in Mexico? Myths and urban legends abound in Mexico surrounding the ease with which foreigners are arrested, for all kinds of offenses, from drugs to public intoxication. Nothing is further from the truth. Foreigners are rarely arrested in Mexico. There is definitely
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By MARK LORENZANA Luis Oswaldo Espinoza Marín, a lawyer and owner of the real estate agency and law firm Professional Legal Advisors (AJP) in the Mexican central-western state of Jalisco, committed suicide on the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 6, by shooting himself in the head after agents from the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office went to his residence in the municipality of Zapopan. The agents were
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By MARK LORENZANA Javier Coello Trejo, former lawyer of Emilio Lozoya Austin — the disgraced former CEO of Mexican state-run oil giant Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), who is currently in custody on corruption charges — said on Tuesday, June 28, that he will file a lawsuit for moral damages against Mexican Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero. On Thursday, June 23,
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican Judge Bárbara Melissa Gómez on Saturday, June 11, removed former Nuevo León governor and presidential candidate Jaime “El Bronco” Rodríguez Calderón from preventive detention and placed him under house arrest. Rodríguez Calderón will now face the two current criminal proceedings against him at home and will not be brought back to the prison in Apodaca, Nuevo
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By MARK LORENZANA Javier López Zavala, former secretary of the government under Mario Marín, who served as the governor of the central Mexican state of Puebla, was arrested Monday, June 6, in connection to the murder of longtime Mexican human rights worker and legal defender Cecilia Monzón. López Zavala is the ex-husband of Monzón. Monzón was shot dead in front
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Nobody wants to think about their own mortality, and sitting down to write a will is about a blatant a reminder of that fact as you can find. Which is why more than 75 percent of Mexicans die intestate. But as hard as it may be to confront the possibility of your own death, writing a
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just in case you are wondering why Monday, March 15, is an official holiday here in Mexico, it is in observation of the 1807 birthday of five-time president Benito Juárez, a national hero who helped chase the French out of the country, overthrew the Hapsburg-imposed empire of Maximillian I, and restored the republic under a liberal regime
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Gradual Business Reopenings Begin Ever so trepidly and not without fear that it might not be the right move to make, Mexico City and 16 Mexican states will begin gradual reopening for business as of Monday, June 16, after a harrowing 90-day lockdown that began on March 15. City and state authorities have warned that if there
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Three and a half months after his nomination by President Donald Trump, the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed attorney Christopher Landau to serve as Washington’s ambassador to Mexico on Thursday, Aug. 1. The position has been open since the departure of U.S. Ambassador Roberta Jacobson, an appointee of former U.S. President Barack Obama, in May
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There was really very little to discuss on Sunday, July 21, during the just-over-an-hour-long meeting in Mexico City between visiting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard. It was clear previous to the meet that Mexico had achieved the goals demanded of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)by U.S. President Donald
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