Batres has always worked — first within the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and later in Morena — alongside López Obrador, with his sights clearly set on the main political position in the country’s capital
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By KELIN DILLON According to reports from Sunday, Aug. 14, five men arrested for involvement in Thursday’s lethal attack on Ciudad Juárez, in which at least 11 people were killed, were sentenced to preventative detention for no more than two years in prison as they continue to be investigated for the crimes of attempted homicide and damages. The accused individuals
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 8, a Mexican federal judge struck down an arrest warrant involving allegations of money laundering and organized crime issued against former Secretary of Social Development (Sedesol) Rosario Robles, though she is set to remain in prison awaiting trial on other charges surrounding her time at Sedesol. Robles has been accused of using her position
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A judge in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has agreed to extradite businessman Carlos Agustín Ahumada Kurtz, who has an outstanding arrest warrant for alleged crimes of fraud, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) announced Wednesday, Dec. 22. Ahumada Kurtz, a duel Mexican-Argentine citizen, has been in the crosshairs of the Prosecutor’s Office for alleged acts of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mariana Moguel, daughter of imprisoned former Mexican Social Development (Sedesol) Secretary Rosario Robles — who has been held without trial since August 2019 at the behest of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for alleged involvement in the so-called Mater Fraud of some 5 billion pesos — filed a legal complaint on Wednesday,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Former Mexican Social Development Secretary Rosario Robles on Monday, Oct. 25, said that she has been held in jail without bail or trial for more than two years because she is a political prisoner. Robles, who is alleged to have been one of the organizers of Mexico’s so-called Master Fraud, went on to say
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By KELIN DILLON In a ruling on Wednesday, Oct. 20, a federal judge ruled to keep former Mexico’s Secretary of Social Development (Sedesol) Rosario Robles in preventative detention instead of house arrest, deeming her as a high risk of potentially fleeing the country. Robles was arrested in 2019 on the charge of stealing 4.6 billion pesos, the equivalent to $250
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Oct. 4, Mexico’s Third District Judge of Amparo in Mexico City Criminal Matters ruled that Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero may not continue to speak on the alleged guilt of former Secretary of Social Development Rosario Robles in her ongoing legal process, citing Gertz’s previously public discussion on the topic as interfering with her
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By RICARDO CASTILLO New Mexican Tourist Resort Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Saturday visited the largest of the three islands, popularly known as “Las Marías,” off the coast of Nayarit in the Pacific Ocean. During his visit, AMLO announced that in three months the archipelago, which once served as a federal prison, would open up to tourists as
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Pemex Drops Fitch, But It’s Not Reciprocal The Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) dropped the international ratings firm Fitch from its budget on Tuesday, March 2, saying that it “no longer needs” the New York-based company’s services. Fitch’s ratings of the humongous Pemex debt has been harsh, and in its latest move. Fitch downgraded
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