By RICARDO CASTILLO The verbal brawl between 10 protesting state governors who ganged up against Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) regarding “the fiscal pact” continues as the Senate approved on Wednesday, Nov. 28, the preliminary proposal for the nation’s 2021 federal budget. In Pulse News Mexico, we reported that a group of rebellious governors threatened secession. We did
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Politicking Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) tossed a boa constrictor into the national political swamp on Tuesday, June 9. No doubt all political toads, snakes and even crocs and other amphibians quietly swimming around jumped out of the water, scared as hell. AMLO had his press secretary Jesús Ramírez Cuevas read aloud a document that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The first complete draft for a viable law that allows for military participation in civilian policing activities was unanimously approved by the Mexican Senate last week. That step, however, is only the first move for the bill. Originally, the lower house Chamber of Deputies had sent a draft that had been sent to them by President Andrés
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite condemnation from Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), as well as the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Mexican Congress approved a bill on Tuesday, Feb. 19, that adds nine new charges to the list of crimes for which suspects must be held without the possibility of bail, including electoral fraud and fuel
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