PULSE NEWS MEXICO Puebla Governor Miguel Barbosa died on Tuesday, Dec. 13, at age 63 from unknown causes. Barbosa, a leftist firebrand member of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party who came to office after a mysterious helicopter crash in late December 2018 killed Martha Erika Alonso, the woman who had run against him and
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Porfirio Sánchez Mendoza, head of Mexico’s central state of Aguascalientes’ police force, was killed Thursday, Nov. 17, in a helicopter crash. The Aguascalientes Public Security helicopter collapsed in the late morning on Thursday, killing five people, including the head of that agency, Sánchez Mendoza. The aircraft crashed in the Aguascalientes town of Jesús María after participating in
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Failing to point out, protest or become indignant at the illegal behavior and actions of public servants, which we had come to believe was a thing of the past, is the new norm that is giving credence to the thesis of authoritarian and caudillista regression in Mexico, supported by an exacerbated populism expressed to describe
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Miguel Barbosa, the governor of the central Mexican state of Puebla, dismissed the mass murder of nine people in the town of Atlixco on Wednesday, March 10, since, in his words, “they were not from the state, and besides, they were drug traffickers.” Barbosa, a member of President Andrés Manuel López Obradro’s (AMLO) leftist
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO’s New Year Message The prospects for 2021 are looking good in the eyes of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as the nation’s treasury starts the new decade with a 65 billion peso surplus, thanks to stiff collections practices that have “wealthy tax evaders” climbing the walls. To be clear, that does not mean
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The former governor of the central Mexican state of Jalisco, Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz, was gunned down in Puerto Vallarta in the early hours of Friday, Dec. 18. Sandoval Díaz, a member of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as governor of Jalisco from 2013 to 2018, was shot dead at point-blank
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a scathing review of the Mexican president’s first two years in office, the highly acclaimed El Universal daily newspaper this weekend offered a point-by-point breakdown of some of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) most prominent failures, on the eve of his second State of the Nation Address, slated for Tuesday, Dec. 1. AMLO,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The candidates of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO)National Regeneration Movement (Morena) for the states of Baja California and Puebla, Jaime Bonilla Valdez and Miguel Barbosa Huerta, respectively, walked away with resounding victories over their competitors for the gubernatorial races on Sunday, June 2. In Baja California, a state that had been governed by the conservative
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The next round of elections in Mexico is just around the corner. slated for Sunday. June 2. There will be political activity on different basis in six different states. Clearly, the attention will be most focused in the states of Puebla and Baja California. where elections for governor will be attracting the bulk of attention. They are,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Like whirlwind, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took the nation by storm in December, outlining the shape of things to come in Mexico during 2019. AMLO was anything but contemplative during his first month in office. To begin with, he held 20 hour-long press conferences to explain either what he had done the the day before or what he
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