The World in Turmoil
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Eighth Journalist Killed This Year in Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICOI STAFF On Tuesday, March 15, Mexican reporter Armando Linares, director of the Monitor Michoacán news outlet, became the eighth journalist to be murdered so far this year in Mexico in a torrent of killings that has earned the government international condemnation. Linares was shot dead in the city of Zitacuaro, Michoacan, outside his home, that
Read moreAMLO Calls European Parliamentarians Sheep, Interventionists
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, March 10, called members of the European Parliament (EP) “sheep” and “interventionists” after that body, the only directly elected entity within the European Union (EU), called on him earlier in the day to provide protection to journalists and to stop using the “populist rhetoric” that
Read moreEuropean Parliament Calls on AMLO to Protect Journalists
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The European Parliament on Thursday, March 10, called on the Mexican government to guarantee the protection of journalists and human rights defenders, noting that this year alone, seven reporters have already been murdered in the country. In a resolution passed with 607 votes in favor, 2 against, and 73 abstentions, the European Parliament expressed
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AMLO Says US Financing Campaign against him, Will Confront Biden
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Thursday, Feb. 17, that the United States is “financing” a media smear campaign against him and his government, and that he intends to confront President Joe Biden about the matter. Calling the alleged campaign “an act of political interference” by a foreign government into Mexican internal
Read moreAMLO Wanted the INAI to Do his Dirty Work
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Somehow the irony of demanding that the supposedly autonomous National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) — which has, as its name implies, among its main duties the protection of Mexican citizen’s personal data — to hand over and publicly reveal personal information of one of his main critics seemed
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A Parting of the Ways
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AMLO’s Hate-Hate Relationship with the Press
Read moreNavigating Mexico: Just How Free Is Mexico?
OPINION By JUAN DE JESÚS BREEN Once again the U.S.-based Cato Institute thinktank — for the seventh year in a row — has published its yearly Human Freedom Index, known to political science students as the HFI. The index measures 165 countries on 12 freedoms: rule of law, security and safety, movement, religion, civil society, expression, relationships, government size, legal
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