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Electoral Prosecutor Exonerates AMLO’s Brother for Receiving Cash

By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Special Prosecutor’s Office for Electoral Crimes (FEDE) has concluded that Pío López Obrador, brother of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), did not commit any electoral crime. Incidentally, José Agustín Ortiz Pinchetti, FEDE head, is a member of AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena). Ortiz Pinchetti, in his decision, determined that Pío López Obrador allegedly

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AMLO: Gertz Manero Can Do No Wrong

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After audio recordings of Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero were leaked on YouTube on Friday, March 4, showing him plotting with Federal Prosecutor Juan Ramos López regarding the ongoing “case” against Gertz Manero’s 94-year-old sister-in-law and 69-year-old niece, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) once again expressed his unflinching support of the controversial

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Last Nail in the Coffin of Gertz Manero’s Injust Reign, Maybe…

OPINION By THÉRÊSE MARGOLIS In what might finally be the beginning of the end of the judicial terror imposed by Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, the recordings of two phone conversations were leaked on YouTube on Friday, March 4, proving (once again) Gertz Manero’s direct intervention into judicial cases in which he has a vested interest. In the recordings,

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AMLO Promises Punishment for Brother if He Is Found Guilty

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday, Oct. 7, said if his brother Pío López Obrador is responsible for what he is accused of, he should be punished. On Wednesday, Oct. 6, Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF) gave the green light to the National Electoral Institute (INE) to proceed with

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AMLO Gives New Meaning to the Phrase ‘Brotherly Love’

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Among the myriad of self-ordained unofficial titles that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has acquired over his so-far two-and-a-half-year-term of office is that of clergy-in-chief. Indeed, it is not uncommon for the president to transition his daily political bully pulpit into a religious pulpit during his two-hour-long morning press conferences. And one of his favorite

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As Always, Mexico’s FGR Does as AMLO Wishes

By KELIN DILLON In the first three years of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) has acted in López Obrador’s favor four times at his direct suggestion, leaving the institution’s impartiality in question. Recently, the FGR announced its case against former Secretary of the Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal for illegal

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Court Says Investigation Into AMLO’s Brother Will Continue

By KELIN DILLON The investigation by the Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) into President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) brother Pío López Obrador regarding his alleged reception of funds to benefit the National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) electoral campaigns will continue, following a ruling by the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) on

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Santa Lucia Field Construction Continues…That Is, its Baseball Field

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Work at Mexico’s controversial new Santa Lucia airport field is coming along right on track, according to government sources. Of course, the field in question is not Santa Lucía’s airfield, but its baseball field. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who has made no secret of his personal penchant for the sport (even though the majority

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El Universal Offers Mexican State of the Nation Review

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a scathing review of the Mexican president’s first two years in office, the highly acclaimed El Universal daily newspaper this weekend offered a point-by-point breakdown of some of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) most prominent failures, on the eve of his second State of the Nation Address, slated for Tuesday, Dec. 1. AMLO,

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