Mexico’s Attorney General announced the opening of formal criminal proceedings against National Migration Institute Director Francisco Garduño for his role in the lethal March 27 fire in Ciudad Juárez
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Though the testimony presented by Zambada was not backed up by physical or documented evidence, the prosecution’s final question to Zambada posed if the cartel-member-turned-U.S.-witness had any doubts about paying bribes to García Luna, to which he replied: “Of course not, I’m sure”
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) will limit the applications of amparos (habeas corpus injunctions), which it says have been “abused excessively” by lawyers. On Tuesday, June 7, the court approved a jurisprudence that would limit, specifically, amparos known as “seekers,” which have been requested by people who suspect they are under investigation for a crime, but
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By KELIN DILLON As files from the controversial Odebrecht case, that name former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and his former Treasury Secretary Luis Videgaray as participants in the scheme, have recently been sent to the organized crime unit of Mexico’s Attorney General of the Public (FGR), formal accusations and charges are anticipated to soon follow against the nation’s former
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While the number of reported cases of rape in Mexico City rose in 2020 to its highest incidence in seven years, only 10 out of every 100 cases are prosecuted with a guilty verdict. According to figures from the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office, between Jan. 1, 2014 to April 11, 2021, 6,996 cases
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