By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Thugs in Uniforms Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) ever-expanding army of National Guard (GN) troops has been flexing its muscles in a violent show of force against civilians, proving once again that unbridled military power is a threat to the nation and the Mexican people alike. In just the last month alone, members of AMLO’s
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A Shot of Nothing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) seems to be more obsessed over the incident in which one elderly woman in the northwestern state of Sonora was given an “empty” covid-19 vaccine injection last month than he claims the media is. The alleged mistake occurred when an apparently overworked nursing student accidently jabbed a
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XINHUA Leticia Robles makes a meager living by selling artisan soaps made of aromatic essential oils. At least, she did until the covid-19 pandemic dried up tourism in Huichapan, a small village in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo. Designated a “Magic Town” by Mexico’s Tourism Secretariat, Huichapan was until the covid-19 outbreak in February 2020 a tourist magnet known
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Salgado Macedonia Keeps Going and Going and Going It seems that wannabe Guerrero governor Félix Salgado Macedonio just can’t take “no” for an answer. Despite the fact that both the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Guerrero Electoral Institute approved the cancelation of his candidacy for Mexico’s June 6 elections on grounds that he did not fully report
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Tragic Saga of Victoria She came to Mexico as a refugee in 2018, with the hopes of eventually making her way to the United States and getting political asylum there. But for 36-year-old Salvadorian Victoria Esperanza Salazar Arriaza, the journey north would come to an abrupt end at the hands of the Mexican police, who, after
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS From Fuel Thief to Candidate The former head of Mexico’s left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in the northern state of Tamaulipas, Miguel Ángel Almaraz Maldonado, who was arrested in 2009 by the Federal Attorney General’s Office for allegedly working with the Zetas organized crime group to steal oil from the state-run oil giant Petróleos Mexicanos
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Roberta’s Back In May 2018, then-outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson made a prediction, saying that she was not saying goodbye but rather “so long.” On Tuesday, March 23, Jacobson kept her promise and returned to Mexico, this time as U.S. President Joe Biden’s southern border affairs representative. Jacobson led a committee of U.S. officials in
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By RICARDO CASTILLO An Irate Response After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) asked Supreme Court Chief Justice Arturo Zaldivar to order an investigation into Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro (who indefinitely suspended the president’s controversial new electricity bill), Zaldivar complied and requested the officer in charge of the Council of the Judiciary, Carlos Alpízar, to pay a visit
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Erstwhile Aztec and Spaniards Meet in Court A major political war between the modern conquest version of the Aztec versus the Spaniards is now being wagered in Mexico between conservative and liberal forces. The conflict was sparked by the controversial ruling made by Second District Court for the Administration, Economic Competency and Broadcast Services for Mexico City
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The fourth stage of the Mexico City government’s vaccination program is set to begin on Wednesday, March 17, to inoculate the elderly populations of the Venustiano Carranza precinct, with the Chinese-produced SinoVac vaccine, city officials announced Monday, March 15. City officials said that they hope to inoculate 91,241 residents of the precinct, all of
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