By RICARDO CASTILLO Suits Filed against Polevnsky A suit for charges of fraud worth 809 million pesos and money laundering was filed Wednesday, June, 18 by the temporary presidency of Mexico’s incumbent National Regeneration Party (Morena) against its former president, Yeidckol Polevnsky. The suit was filed before the office of the Mexican Fiscal General (FGR). At the same time, the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Little Parties on the Skid The Mexican Senate, presided over by Mónica Fernández of the National Action Party (PAN), dissolved the partisan representation of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Social Encounter Party (PES) for not meeting the minimum of five senators to be counted as a party. The PRD, led by former Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Constitution Day Though officially sessions for both houses of the Mexican Congress kicked off on Saturday, Feb. 1, the first gathering to discuss legal issues will be on Mexico’s Constitution Day, Feb. 5. By now, 14 months after he was sworn in, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has most of his campaign legislative agenda laid
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made it clear that Eduardo Medina Mora “freely made his own decision” to resign…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … The resignation of Mexican Supreme Court Judge Eduardo Medina Mora has certainly shaken up the Mexican political system…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Lomas de Chapultepec mansion that once belonged to Chinese-born imprisoned Mexican citizen Zhenli Ye Gon will be auctioned on Sunday, Aug.11, as programmed, said Ricardo Rodríguez Vargas, president of the Institute to Return to the People What Was Stolen From Them, officially known as Administration and Properties Alienation (SAE). Rodriguez Vargas made the announcement early Wednesday, Aug. 7, during Mexican
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By RICARDO CASTILLO This article is about Mexico’s new (literally from the Spanish) Law of Dominium Extinction or Expired Ownership Domain, approved last July 24 by the Mexican Senate and similar in some ways to the one known as Eminent Domain in the United States. The law is being questioned by a number of deputies such as Tatiana Clouthier (Morena)
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Newly instated Mexican Banking Association (ABM) president Luis Niño de Rivera announced on Friday, March 22, that banks in Mexico will no longer charge commissions on digital accounts. Speaking before Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) during the 82nd National Banking Conference in Acapulco, Guerrero, Niño de Rivera said that, in keeping with
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE and DAVID M. LUNA (The following article first appeared in “The National Interest” and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) As the United States debates “emergencies” at its southern border and negotiates a trade deal with China, U.S. leaders must confront the lethal trade in fentanyl from other North American countries
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