PULSE NEWS MEXICO After a “corrida” of on-again-off-again legal bouts over whether to allow bullfighting to continue to be practiced in Mexico, the nation’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) on Wednesday, June 15, ruled that, while it condemned the sport as inhumane to animals, it would not ban it. Both bullfighting and cockfighting, considered traditional sports in Mexico, “inflict unnecessary,
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Unless you have been arrested for being involved in a bar brawl, public urination or driving while intoxicated, you probably did not even know a certain type of court exists in Mexico. While other countries have traffic court, small claims or other type of lesser-infraction courts, in more and more communities, including in Mexico City,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just weeks before the summer season begins and after the implementation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) crackdown on private, green energy production, Mexico’s National Center for Energy Control (Cenace), which is in charge of controlling the electrical system, has announced that the country should brace for a series of widespread blackouts in
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that yet another federal judge on Monday, May 2, ordered the stoppage of all construction on Section 5 of the Mexican president’s controversial Tren Maya railway project because of its endangerment of the fragile cenote underwater riverways in that region, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, May 3, said that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Opposition party mayors, who make up the Mexico City Mayors Union (Unacdmx), have, in the last six months, filed 22 formal charges of constitutional violations by the capital’s government — run by Governor Claudia Sheinbaum of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party — before Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN).
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a unanimous vote on Monday, April 25, Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) determined that a new law proposed by Congress that would require the owners of all cell phones to be listed in a national registry was unconstitutional. After reviewing the law, which was intended to prevent extortion scams using cell phones, the SCJN
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that a Mexican federal court last month granted a legal injunction to the Spanish energy firm Iberdrola that would allow it to continue operating its Dulces Nombres power plant in Pesquería, Nuevo León, and requiring that the country’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reconnect it to the national grid, the CFE has
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The fact that members of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party have no qualms about bending — and even breaking — the law in order to achieve their goals is nothing new. We already saw this evidenced in how blatantly the party violated electoral laws in order to promote
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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