OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Failing to point out, protest or become indignant at the illegal behavior and actions of public servants, which we had come to believe was a thing of the past, is the new norm that is giving credence to the thesis of authoritarian and caudillista regression in Mexico, supported by an exacerbated populism expressed to describe
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO’s New Year Message The prospects for 2021 are looking good in the eyes of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as the nation’s treasury starts the new decade with a 65 billion peso surplus, thanks to stiff collections practices that have “wealthy tax evaders” climbing the walls. To be clear, that does not mean
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a scathing review of the Mexican president’s first two years in office, the highly acclaimed El Universal daily newspaper this weekend offered a point-by-point breakdown of some of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) most prominent failures, on the eve of his second State of the Nation Address, slated for Tuesday, Dec. 1. AMLO,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Alejandro Aparicio Santiago, the newly elected mayor of the town of Tlaxiaco, in the central Mexican state of Oaxaca, was gunned down on New Year’s Day, Tuesday, Jan 1. A member of the now-ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Aparicio Santiago was shot dead during his inaugural ceremony by two unidentified men, who also gravely
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Newly instated Puebla Governor Martha Erika Alonso was killed in a helicopter crash, along with her husband, Federal Senator and former Puebla Governor Rafael Moreno Valle, and three other people, on Monday, Dec. 24. The helicopter crashed suddenly shortly after takeoff from a heliport in Puebla’s Colonia Santa Maria Coronango area of Puebla. The
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