By RICARDO CASTILLO Lozoya’s Very Staged Internment What a hoax! The elaborate circus staged in the wee hours of Friday, July 17, by the Fiscal General of the Republic (FGR) for the arrival in Mexico of extradited prisoner and former head of the state-run Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company Emilio Lozoya Austin has a name: an outright farce. Throngs of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO War of the Judiciaries Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent a clear message to two top prosecutors, Fiscal General of the Republic Alejandro Gertz Manero and Financial Intelligence Unit of the Treasury Secretariat Santiago Nieto Castillo: Get your act together! A week ago, on Friday, July 10, Gertz Manero told a Mexican daily newspaper that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S. expat-cum-Mexican political activist John Mill Ackerman Rose (to use the Mexican style of writing long names) now is engaged on several fronts that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) opponents are using as potential attacks on his presidency. The one rocking the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) insider politics boat the most is Ackerman calling on the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A Show of Mutual Respect at Binational Summit While at the White House in Washington, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) received three “gifts” from his host, U.S. President Donald Trump. First, as we at Pulse News Mexico had forecast, AMLO talked baseball with Trump and both exchanged bats. The one Trump received was decorated with
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican President Andrés Manual Lopez Obrador’s (AMLO) uncanny ability to shock people seems to have no limits. His latest stunt to do so was traveling on Delta Airlines tourist class. At the very least, he could have purchased a business class ticket, but he, along with small entourage headed by Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Suits Filed against Polevnsky A suit for charges of fraud worth 809 million pesos and money laundering was filed Wednesday, June, 18 by the temporary presidency of Mexico’s incumbent National Regeneration Party (Morena) against its former president, Yeidckol Polevnsky. The suit was filed before the office of the Mexican Fiscal General (FGR). At the same time, the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Government Downsizing The exact significance of politically oriented economic moves is inevitably in the eye of the beholder. This past week, there several events occurred in Mexico that have been interpreted according to different interests. Businessmen generally consider downsizing a natural move to make a company more profitable But in terms of government cuts, that same downsizing
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Jalisco Skids Deeper in Debt As pressure grows on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) “to make use” of credits available from international funding organizations, the president becomes more adamant and intrinsic about pushing the nation into further debt. Much of that pressure is coming from opposition state governors, who convened last week in Parras, Coahuila,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO UN Approves AMLO’s Proposal Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposal to both the Group of 20 (G-20) and the United Nations to avoid financial speculation and promote access by all nations to medical covid-19 related instruments for treatment was approved by 179 UN member nations, Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced on Tuesday, April 21.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico-U.S. Border Shut for Nonessentials U.S. President Donald Trump perhaps was not precise enough when he announced on Friday, March 20, that with the agreement of the Mexican government, he was “closing the border” as of midnight. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency had to come to the immediate rescue with a press release clarifying the
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