Mechanism for Access to Truth and Historical Clarification previously denounced the Secretariat of National Defense for having allegedly disobeyed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s orders to reopen case files on the Mexican Dirty War
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO on an Electrical Collision Course Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) clearly sent a “suggestion” to the Chamber of Deputies in regards to their discussions over the increasingly controversial bill regulating the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). “Do not change even an iota of the text” that they had received from him for a fast-track
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) emphatically denied having threatened the United States with expelling its Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents from the country over the controversial arrest of former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos in Los Angeles last month. Speaking at his daily early morning press conference at the National Palace on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Now that former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda has returned to Mexico, he will be tried in a nonmilitary Mexican court based on evidence provided by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Wednesday, Nov. 18. Cienfuegos, who had faced drug-running and money-laundering charges in the United States
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a surprise move, U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced late Tuesday, Nov. 17, that his office would be dropping all charges against former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda. The decision to drop the charges against Cienfuegos in the United States came at the request of Mexico’s Fiscal General (FGR) in order for the
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By KYLIE MADRY From Federales to Mall Cops More than 8,000 members of the Federal Forces Division and the Gendarmerie Division of the now-dissolved Mexican Federal Police will be reduced to doormen and parking lot attendants, according to an Oct. 17 report in La Crónica newspaper. The divisions built a reputation as specialized military-police forces within the Federal Police, with high-power
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, Mexico’s former secretary of defense, was detained in the Los Angeles International Airport, along with his family, by U.S. Drug Enfrcement Agency (DEA) officials, along with his family, late Thursday, Oct. 15, on suspicion of drug traficking. Cienfuegos Zepeda, who served ias the country’s top military leader from 2012 to 2018,
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