By KELIN DILLON New reports have revealed that Mexico’s in-power leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) used 64 shell companies to issue 2,445 invoices totaling to 31 million pesos over the years, a practice it has long admonished and lambasted opponents for doing. Morena has allegedly used these ghost invoicing companies since the party’s creation in 2014, beginning the practice just
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In the nearly three years that leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been in power, an additional 3.8 million Mexicans have fallen into poverty, and of those, 55 percent have dropped below the extreme poverty line, according to a report issued Thursday, Aug. 5, by the National Council for the Evaluation of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite his infamously callous bulldozer approach to diplomacy, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Thursday, Aug. 5, that Mexico will soon host a “mediation process” between Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his political opponents. The president did not say when the mediation would begin, but internal sources in the Mexican government have
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government said Wednesday, Aug. 4, that it will file a suit against several U.S.-based gun manufacturers, claiming that lax controls have led to a surge in the illegal flow of weapons across the border, The Washington Post reported. The Washington Post said that the suit will be filed in a “U.S. federal
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It was bad enough that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted public consulta (referendum) on Sunday, Aug. 1, to decide whether to prosecute his predecessors for their alleged misdeeds was a total disaster in terms of turnout (early estimates put eligible voter participation at between 7.07 and 7.74 percent; the final count was 7.11 percent),
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A strike by distributors and commissioners of one of Mexico’s largest gas unions, begun on Monday, Aug. 2, will continue until a price agreement is worked out with the government, according to industry leaders. The closure of natural (LP) gas distribution stations given the Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration’s arbitrary decision over the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No matter how you look at it, Mexico’s public referendum (consulta) on Sunday, Aug. 1, to determine whether to prosecute former presidents for their alleged misdeeds was a disaster. According to early reports from the National Electoral Institute (INE), which was in charge of organizing and supervising the 528-million-peso fiasco, between 7.07 and 7.74 percent of the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Sunday, Aug. 1, millions of Mexicans — mostly devoted followers of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — turned out to cast their vote in a convoluted referendum to decide whether to prosecute the nation’s former presidents for their alleged misdeeds. And even though AMLO touted the “consulta” as a “momentous experience” in Mexico’s democracy, in
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Backfire
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As the third wave of covid-19 infections in Mexico settles in, 85 percent of the 79,828 active cases of the disease in the country are concentrated in just 16 states, according to the epidemiological report of Tuesday, July 20, issued by the Public Health Secretariat (SSA). The highest concentrations of new cases are in
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