By KYLIE MADRY The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office has asked the United States to extradite a longtime Mexican official accused of stealing millions of pesos while in office, a spokesman announced during a press conference Saturday, Oct. 31. The previous day, the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office, along with the Morelos Attorney General’s Office, searched the house of Raymundo
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Friday, Oct. 30, that he intends to name Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who served as his head of municipal security when he was mayor of Mexico City, to replace Alfonso Durazo as the nation’s new security and civil protection secretary. Speaking during his daily morning press conference,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The denial for a $750,000 bail by California Federal District Judge Alexander F. Mackinnon to former Mexico Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda on Tuesday, Oct. 20, in Los Angeles set the stage for a drawn-out trial. Now what remains for the 72-year-old former soldier is a long and windy road to hell. Cienfuegos has gone from riches
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There’s a lot more than meets the naked eye in the electoral imbroglio involving Mexican Federal Deputies Porfirio Muñoz Ledo and Mario Delgado, both vying for the presidency of the majority National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party. Election organizer the National Electoral Institute (INE) called the election “a technical draw.” and is now initiating a third contest
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It took some time, but finally, the outline of events to commemorate 2021 as the year of the “Greatness of Mexico” arrived on Wednesday, Sept. 30, during President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) daily press conference at the National Palace. The president announced the celebration of seven dates of historical importance, starting with the foundation of Mexico City.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Economic Skid Two of the basic economic indicators, demand and supply, plunged down by 19.4 percent in comparison to the same period last year, according to a quarterly report from the Mexican government official pollster, the National Institute of Geography and Statistic (Inegi). The figures reflect statistics both for home and industry, which had been stable since
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Chihuahua Governor Seeks Martyrdom In the past two weeks, National Action Party (PAN) Chihuahua Governor Javier Corral has staged two major publicity stunts: First he led a group of 10 state governors to splinter from the National Governors’ Conference (Conago), and then, Immediately afterwards, he permitted a group of farmers to take the federally managed and National
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Photo: Google By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration will donate much-needed Made-in-Mexico ventilators to eight financially strapped Caribbean nations to treat covid-19 patients, Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced on Wednesday, Aug. 26. The newly minted VSZ-20-2 ventilators — produced through the government’s Juntos por la Salud (Together for Health) program, with
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XINHUA Mexico will participate in clinical trials of a vaccine being developed in Italy against the novel coronavirus (covid-19), Mexican Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday, Aug. 25. “We are very grateful to Italy,” Ebrard said at a press conference, accompanied by Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and authorities from the health sector. Italy’s Lazzaro Spallanzani
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XINHUA Mexico has been offered at least 2,000 doses of a Russian covid-19 vaccine and is to take part in its clinical trials, said Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard on Thursday, Aug. 20. “This is very good news because once again we are gaining time,” said Ebrard. Ebrard and Russian Ambassador to Mexico Viktor Koronelli met on Wednesday, Aug. 19,
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