By KELIN DILLON The newly sworn-in governors of Mexican states Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Sonora, Campeche, Nayarit and San Luis Potosí have raised concerns about the precarious financial situations of the states they inherited, noting the lack of funds present to pay payroll, pensions and providers. The National Action Party’s (PAN) Governor of Chihuahua María Eugenia Campos made note of a 11
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Opponents and critics launched a petition on Sunday, Sept. 12, demanding that the government of Mexico City restore the statue of Christopher Columbus on Paseo de la Reforma, the capital’s main avenue. “We Mexicans, and particularly the inhabitants of the capital of the country, are outraged by the withdrawal of our historical heritage on
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s vaccination efforts against covid-19 try their best to move forward, yet another roadblock has presented itself, this time in the form of a proverbial drought in doses. While last week, Mexico received over 5 million doses of vaccines from brands AstraZeneca and Pfizer, this week the number dwindled to less than half of that, with
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) seemingly believes everything that disgraced former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya’s claims surrounding who received bribes during his time at the company, despite several witnesses offering testimony to the contrary. After admitting himself to have received bribes from corrupt Brazilian company Odebrecht after his extradition back to Mexico in
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Va Por México alliance, which consists of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), denounced its opposition, the in-power leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) for using the country’s judicial branch to persecute its opponents and critics, specifically referring to the new charges
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By KELIN DILLON The members of the Va Por México alliance, which consists of centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), announced they would be going to the Organization of American States (OAS) on Monday, Aug. 23 to denounce the involvement of organized crime in Mexico’s electrol
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By KELIN DILLON In a video published on Saturday, Aug. 21, former Mexican presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya claimed he was being persecuted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and noted he would be outside of Mexico for some time, though his present location still remains unknown. Likewise, National Action Party (PAN) President Marko Cortés claimed he recently spoke to
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The president of Mexico’s conservative National Action Party (PAN), Marko Cortés, was recently faced with the dilemma of having to choose between being the key to the party’s transition in a post-Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Mexico or watching the it surrender its last semblance of political relevancy after having been severely battered in the 2012
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The future of Mexico’s centralist National Institutional Party (PRI) will be contingent to a single concept: loyalty. The PRI lost all the governorships in its power in June for two reasons: the depth of its discredit (derived more from its arrogance than from the failure of the governments it led), and the lack of loyalty of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) is apparently investigating the financial operators of former President Enrique Peña Nieto and his Secretary of the Treasury Luis Videgaray Caso, as well as those of former National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya Cortés, according to a report from the Milenio daily newspaper. Milenio said that those
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