By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero continues his pursuit to put 31 of the nation’s scientists behind bars, the FGR has emerged with accusations against nine former officials of the National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) and Consultative, Scientific and Technological Forum (FCCyT) that could land them each up to 82.5
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By KELIN DILLON Former interim governor of the Mexican state of Coahuila, Jorge Torres López, was sentenced to three years in federal prison by a Texas court on Wednesday, June 23, for the crime of money laundering. The 67-year-old, who replaced Humberto Moreira as Coahuila’s governor for a brief time in 2011, pleaded guilty to the charges in June 2020.
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By KELIN DILLON As of Tuesday, March 23, all online and mobile users of Mexican banks will be required to authorize the use of geolocation (meaning the precise active location at time of use) when performing any kind of banking operations. If users deny the enabling of geolocation, they will be barred from completing any transactions until they do so,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Banxico Law Postponement The Mexican Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, Dec. 15, announced it was postponing the debate on the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) Bill approved last week by the Senate until February. Deputies Chamber President Laura Rojas made the announcement on social media after the majority National Regeneration Movement (Morena) insisted on discussing and voting on
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XINHUA Having won last month the first round of a legal faceoff with the United States — the return of the country’s former Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos, who had been arrested on drug trafficking and money laundering charges in Los Angeles in October — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) upped the ante Monday, Dec. 7, by demanding the
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By KYLIE MADRY Dr. AMLO’s In Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) reported testing negative for covid-19 Wednesday, Oct. 21, following positive cases among several of his cabinet members over the past week. He threw in his two cents at his morning press conference, telling Mexicans to eat healthy to avoid catching the virus. “Don’t eat in excess, don’t
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, Mexico’s former secretary of defense, was detained in the Los Angeles International Airport, along with his family, by U.S. Drug Enfrcement Agency (DEA) officials, along with his family, late Thursday, Oct. 15, on suspicion of drug traficking. Cienfuegos Zepeda, who served ias the country’s top military leader from 2012 to 2018,
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By JORGE ANTONIO ROCHA According to a recent U.S. multi-agency investigation, Ramón García Gibson, a current high-ranking official at Mexico’s Treasury Secretariat (Hacienda) and a former employee of HSBC Bank in Mexico, was responsible for allowing that financial institution to become the country’s leading bank of choice for organized crime. HSBC, a British-based multinational investment bank, allegedly allowed Mexican and
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Fake Invoicing Party Is Over Slowly but surely, Mexico’s Tax Administration Service (SAT) and the country’s fiscal attorney general are going after those who practiced what became during the past administration the most popular sport among businessmen: tax evasion. Fiscal Attorney General Carlos Romero announced his office was issuing culprits a warning salvo to straighten up their
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