By RICARDO CASTILLO LeBarón Case Falls in Fiscal’s Lap The Fiscal General of the Republic (FGR) has under its aegis “total control” over information regarding the murder of six children and three women in northern Mexico last Nov. 4, all of them members of the Mormon binational LeBarón family. Mexican Interior Secretary (SeGob) Olga Sánchez Cordero made the official announcement
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As an outsider who follows Mexico and Mexican news closely, I’ve noticed a couple of recent articles that should be worrying the Mexican middle class. First, according to his column in Pulse News Mexico, Ricardo Castillo has noted that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is making investors nervous. Castillo wrote: “Fear does not ride on
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In yet another of his baffling political sleights of hand, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, July 31, somehow managed to convince his adoring hordes of blind followers that a 0.1 percent growth rate for the second quarter of 2019 – which, in fact, confirmed that the country is in a state of economic
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Egyptian Ambassador to Mexico Yasser Morad and his wife Ghada Alsahsah hosted a diplomatic reception and buffet lunch of North African cuisine at their Bosques de Chapultepec residence on Tuesday, July 23, to mark the 67th anniversary of their country’s national day. In a brief speech before the lunch was served, Morad spoke about the cultural and
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Public Education in Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO After a long and weary debate on the night of Wednesday, April 24, that extended into the wee hours of Thursday, April 25, Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies voted to abolish the Education Reform “imposed” by former President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2013. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) celebrated the backing he received from this house of Congress
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After holding a massive two-day protest outside Mexico’s San Lázaro Congressional Palace earlier in the week (which forced Chamber of Deputies President Porfirio Muñoz Ledo to suspend all sessions until Tuesday, March 26) and meetings on Thursday, March 21, with representatives of both the Education Secretariat and the Interior Secretariat (Segob), leaders of the nation’s militant National
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s renowned for its transparent finances and solid economic growth (an expected 2.9 percent for 2018, and a predicted 2.2 percent for 2019), recognized universally for it superb public education and gender equality (in 1906, it was the first country in the world to grant women the right to vote and stand as candidates in national elections),
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By THE PULSE NESS MEXICO STAFF As part of his plan for national social and academic development, a representative of Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced last week that the new administration intends to eliminate English-language studies from the country’s public school system. Along with the elimination of currently mandatory English-as-a-second-language classes in public schools, the country’s incoming
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