By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Only 37 percent of Mexicans believe what they read in newspapers or hear on broadcast news programs, according to the 2021 edition of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report. According to the report, which was published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford in England on Wednesday, June 22, while
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Ever at odds with the media — both national and international –Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Wednesday, June 23, that he will soon be adding a new weekly segment to his daily press conferences, in which he will list those publications and broadcasters that he considers to be presenting “false
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS One day after the New York Times laid the blame for the May 3 collapse of Mexico City’s Line 12 Metro (which led to the deaths of 26 people) squarely on his shoulders, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard published a guest editorial in the Washington Post on Tuesday, June 15, defending the government of President Andrés
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Based on an article published over the weekend in El Universal newspaper, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) intends to incorporate his 160,000-member-strong National Guard (GN) into the country’s National Defense Secretariat (Sedena). According to the El Universal report, in a recent meeting with “a small group of Mexican businessmen,” AMLO let it slip that he
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After Mexico’s midterm elections on Sunday, June 6, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) openly flirted with the idea that he could woo the once-invincible centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to his court in order to maintain a qualified majority in the country’s lower congressional Chamber of Deputies. But the PRI, whose members are often the object of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Finance and Public Credit (SHCP, or Hacienda) Secretary Arturo Herrera Gutiérrez was nominated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, June 9, to assume the role of governor of the Bank of Mexico (Banxico), replacing the bank’s current head, Alejandro Díaz de León. Herrera must now be approved by the Mexican
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In his daily morning press conference on Wednesday, June 9 — one day after his much-anticipated meeting with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris — Mexican President Andrés Manel López Obrador (AMLO) bragged about how he and Harris had “forgone protocol” and had a friendly meeting. In this case, AMLO was half right: While Harris complied with the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICVO STAFF Claims that Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero is using his position to persecute and steal from the family of his deceased brother continued to mount as his great nephew demanded Tuesday, June 8, that Gertz Manero prove the accusations he has launched against the family. In a second video that soon went viral
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By KELIN DILLON U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited Mexico for the first time in her position as the United States’ second-in-command on Tuesday, June 8, tackling immigration as the most important theme discussed between the neighboring countries and calling the encounter a first step in “embarking on a new era.” The VP arrived in Mexico late Monday night from
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