By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s northern state of Nuevo León, responsible for the country’s third-highest gross domestic product (GDP) of any federal entity, has been experiencing a highly controversial and polarized campaign season ahead of the approaching midterm elections in June, spurred on by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Because of the state’s economic and political power, Nuevo León is
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) candidate for the governorship of Nuevo León, Adrián de la Garza Santos, denounced President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the Organization of American States (OAS) based off of López Obrador’s “interference in the elections in Nuevo León, violating the Inter-American Democratic Charter, signed by the countries of the continent in 2001.”
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By KELIN DILLON After controversy arose surrounding Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) candidate for governor of Nuevo León, Adrián de la Garza, allegedly offering cash cards to women in an attempt to buy their votes in the country’s upcoming June elections, reports have revealed that most, if not all, of Mexico’s political parties commonly engage in this practice. The use
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General (FGR), via its Office of the Special Prosecutor for Electoral Crimes (FEDE), announced it was opening an investigation into alleged electoral crimes committed by two current candidates for the governorship of the conservative state of Nuevo León, Adrián de la Garza of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Samuel García of the Citizens’ Movement.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The problems with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s controversial Santa Lucía Airport project just keep adding up. In addition to work delays and over-expenditures, a high rate of workplace accidents and countless lawsuits over its prioritization and the cancelation of the previous private-sector New International Mexico Airport (NAIM) — not to mention the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a series of accusations of sexual abuse and rape began to mount against Mexican businessman and internationally recognized thinker Andrés Roemer Slomianski, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) formally ordered his arrest him on Wednesday, May 5. According to the FGR, after extensive investigation, it decided that there was sufficient evidence against Roemer for
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, April 28, Mexico’s Investigative Section of the Chamber of Deputies, led by the in-power leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena), voted to freeze the impeachment of the party’s own deputy and alleged child-molester Saúl Huerta until the beginning of the next legislature in September, while moving forward with the financial crime charges against current governor of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s controversial Tren Maya tourist train, a pet project of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) that both national and international environmentalists have repeatedly warned could destroy over half of the Yucatan’s fragile species, will also leave more than 3,000 mostly indigenous Mexican families homeless, according to report published in El Universal newspaper on
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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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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to a study conducted by the Mexican daily newspaper El Financiero, national public support for the “mañanera” morning conferences of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) fell from 49 percent to just 37 percent between March and April, placing their popularity at the lowest point so far in the president’s administration. The survey,
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