Fall of INAI Means Demise of Transparency in Mexico
Mexico’s National Institute for Transparency Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (INAI) has been all over the news lately — but for all the wrong reasons
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Scherer Accuses Gertz, Sánchez Cordero of Plotting against Him
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Julio Scherer Ibarra, former legal advisor to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), accused Federal Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero and Senator and former Interior Secretary (SeGob) Olga Sánchez Cordero on Saturday, March 19, of plotting against him to “soil his name” with a dissemination of misinformation campaign. In an interview published in
Read moreGertz Manero’s Hidden Assets Keep on Mounting
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to an extensive investigation conducted by the U.S. Spanish-language television network Univision, Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero — who has already earned himself considerable public ridicule and distrust for prosecuting his 94-year-old sister-in-law and her family in order to expropriate their inheritance from his late brother, and for trying to incarcerate 31
Read morePresidential Adviser Says ‘Reporters Should Be Silenced’
By ADRIANA GARCIA VALDERRAMA On Wednesday, April 27, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) defended his government’s top judicial advisor Julio Scherer Ibarra who one day earlier ruffled feathers by stating that reporters’ voices should be silenced. The declaration was taken as an invitation for censorship. Speaking during his daily morning press conference, AMLO called Scherer Ibarra “a good
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Jacobson’s Hearsay Interview Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson probably regrets giving an interview to reporter J. Jesús Esquivel that ran on Sunday, May 3, in Mexico’s weekly magazine Proceso. Esquivel mangled the information so badly that Jacobson had to send a set of tweets to claim that she didn’t say what Esquivel said she said.
Read moreAMLO Rants against Magazine Cover
By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s either one or the other, no in between. Either Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is at war with the press, or the press is at war with him. Maybe both. Since being elected president of Mexico, AMLO has been taking a pummeling from the media on a daily basis. Of course, there are the
Read moreForget García Luna, Who’s Really on Trial Is Calderón
By RICARDO CASTILLO Let’s not misinterpret facts: For Mexicans, the man who will be on trial in the United States for providing legal protection to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel will not be former Mexican Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna, but rather his boss, the man who appointed him and protected him in that post from 2006 to 2012, former
Read moreAMLO Denies Taking Orders from US
By RICARDO CASTILLO …. “We do not receive or take orders from the U.S. government,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says…
Read moreEclac’s Bárcena: AMLO Grabbed the Bull by the Horns
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexicans are divided between two opinions: One, those who have faith in the “profound economic model transformation” slowly but surely being promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), and two, those AMLO calls “conservative hypocrites,” who are presently even denouncing the Mexican democratic system as nothing less than a scourge for having elected this populist dude
Read moreSanta Lucia Airport Beleaguered by Suits
By RICARDO CASTILLO Was there or was there not corruption involved in the construction of the now-defunct New International Mexico Airport (NAIM)? Just Monday, July 15, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said there was corruption in many of the already-awarded construction contracts, while Communications and Transportation Secretary (SCT) Javier Jiménez Espriú stated that corruption was not an issue
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