Mexico reached its lowest-ever ranking on Transparency International’s 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index, dropping to 140th out of 180 countries with a score of 26 out of 100
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Approximately 99 percent of Dos Bocas’ 201 contracts were made public with the actual sum awarded to its contractors censored
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Lozoya is being accused of allegedly having received bribes of up to $10.5 million from the Brazilian company Odebrecht
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) changed its mind at the last minute — as it has in the past — leaving former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya still in prison on Tuesday, April 12, after having negotiated his release in exchange for returning $10.7 million to the state-run oil giant. Late Monday, April 11, Mexican Federal
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya on Wednesday, Jan. 26, was denied a habeas corpus injunction against being held without bail and against any further warrants for his arrest. Lozoya, who has been held in prevention detention (jail without the possibility of bail) in the North Penitentiary since Nov. 3 on charges of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A full 17 months after his extradition to Mexico from Spain, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) asked a federal judge to sentence former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya to 39 years in prison for allegedly taking bribes from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. In a letter delivered to Judge Artemio Zúñiga Mendoza of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that he is already being detained without bail on corruption charges linked to the international Odebrecht oil scandal, Emilio Lozoya, the former head of Mexico’s state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) was ordered yet again to detention without the possibility of bail on Wednesday, Nov. 10, for his alleged defrauding of
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexico’s complex political system has historically stood out from those of other Latin American nations for conforming a multiparty structure composed of a wide variety of political organizations. The favorable conditions promoted by the country’s National Electoral Institute (INE) for the creation of new political parties have been key factors for the evergreen emergence
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after former Mexican presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya released an interview with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) detailing his perceived persecution by current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) once again has prepared to launch a warrant for Anaya’s arrest on Monday, Nov. 8. After multiple attempts to
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By KELIN DILLON As files from the controversial Odebrecht case, that name former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and his former Treasury Secretary Luis Videgaray as participants in the scheme, have recently been sent to the organized crime unit of Mexico’s Attorney General of the Public (FGR), formal accusations and charges are anticipated to soon follow against the nation’s former
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