By RICARDO CASTILLO Last Monday, Dec. 24, promised to be a peaceful Christmas Eve day for Mexico. Then, at mid-afternoon, the rumors of a helicopter crash near the city of Puebla, 160 kilometers east of Mexico City, began as a soft murmur and, by early evening, it was a rumbling roar. The governor of the state of Puebla, Martha Erika Alonso,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The change over of presidents in Mexico is always a formal event, and this time was no exception, except for the fact that the style of doing things has changed. Some, if not all, of the stiff formality of yesteryear was absent in the proceedings that took place on Saturday, Dec. 1. The real change of administrations
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By THE PULSE NEW MEXICO STAFF Conflicting reports as to whether the incoming administration of Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has made a closed-door deal with the government of U.S President Donald Trump that would require the growing throngs of Central American asylum seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border to remain in Mexico while their cases are reviewed continue to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s been five full weeks since Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) won the Mexican presidential election. You’d think that he would be immediately recognized for his victory, at least with the moniker of “president-elect,” but in the national press, the moniker has instead been “virtual president-elect.” But as of Wednesday, Aug. 8, this situation will change. The Federal
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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