OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ah, the fickle love of an authoritarian president. When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) loves you, you can do no wrong. His buddy-buddy Félix Salgado Macedonio — who was repeatedly accused of rape, embezzlement and close ties with drug cartels, but still managed to garnish the governorship of the coastal state of Guerrero, albeit
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON One year after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) greenlighted the construction of hundreds of nationwide barracks for Mexico’s National Guard in December 2020, the country’s total barrack count has grown by 123 – but so has Mexico’s rate of violence in tandem. According to the National Public Security System (SNSP), between January and October
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By KELIN DILLON In an op-ed published on Sunday, Nov. 28, respected daily newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) publicly lambasted Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) decree to automatically authorize all public projects determined to be a matter of national security by the government and subsequently placing the initiatives under the jurisdiction of the Mexican military, with the
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The Militarization of Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly 96 hours after they disappeared in Zapopán, Jalisco, on Tuesday, Nov. 16, Mexico’s Navy (Semar) announced Friday, Nov. 19, that it had found the two missing sailors alive, tied and gagged, some 300 kilometers away from where they had last been seen, in that state’s beach resort Puerto Vallarta. The Jalisco State Prosecutor’s
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Following the disappearance of two members of its forces in Zapopán, Jalisco, on Tuesday, Nov. 16, Mexico’s Navy (Semar) announced Thursday, Nov. 18, that it would increase its military presence in that state- According to military sources, some 450 elite troops from the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) and the Mexican Navy have been deployed
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A full 42 percent of the nation’s armed forces personnel has been recommissioned by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to conduct non-military jobs, according to a National Security Report presented to the president on Tuesday, Oct. 20. During AMLO’s daily press conference on Tuesday, Mexican National Guard Commander Luis Rodríguez reported that
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By KELIN DILLON Less than a week after families of the 43 disappeared students from Mexico’s Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the federal government to demand answers about the military’s involvement in the 2014 event, the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero released the military’s 239-page statement as
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Sept. 27, large festivities featuring dances, soldiers, fireworks and a speech from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) were held in Mexico City’s Zócalo, celebrating the 200 years that had passed since Mexico’s Consummation of Independence in 1821. Large lights lit up the downtown square to look akin to the Mexican flag, with staged
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By KELIN DILLON Seven years after 43 male students from Mexico’s Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were kidnapped and disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014, the students’ parents have demanded the federal government and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) deepen investigation into the army’s purported role in the tragic event. Allegations and evidence of the 27 Infantry Battalion of Iguala’s involvement
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