Lessons of 2020 Reshaped our World
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Mexico Ups Ante with Demands to US for García Luna Extradition
XINHUA Having won last month the first round of a legal faceoff with the United States — the return of the country’s former Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos, who had been arrested on drug trafficking and money laundering charges in Los Angeles in October — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) upped the ante Monday, Dec. 7, by demanding the
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Businesses Hit the Outsourcing Panic Button The start of an Open Parliament to discuss Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed reform of outsourcing practices forced the leading business organization representatives to call for an emergency meeting with him that very same day. The president received the businessmen at the National Palace. Given the positioning of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO General Salvador Cienfuegos arrived back in Mexico on Wednesday, Nov. 18, with all charges against him in the United States — for a myriad of crimes allegedly committed while he was the country’s defense secretary (between 2015 and 2017) — suddenly dropped by U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr. Not just you, but practically everyone in the media
Read moreWilliam Barr Drops All Charges Against Ciencuegos
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 RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Bill on Collision Course The bill to “reform labor outsourcing” sent to the Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) last week is definitely heading toward a collision course in Congress. Mexican Labor Secretary Luisa María Alcalde complied the bill with the helping hand of the heads of the Mexican Treasury (Hacienda),
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Steel King Tanked, Again Spanish police on Saturday, Nov. 8, arrested Mexican citizen Alonso Ancira Elizondo in the island resort of Palma de Mallorca. Ancira, head of the steel foundry Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA), now faces extradition to Mexico. He was free on bond but the court, known as the National Audience of Spain, rejected
Read moreWashington Post: 20 Percent of Mexico Controlled by Cartels
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF About 20 percent of Mexico’s nearly 2 million square kilometers of territory are currently under the direct control of armed drug cartels and other criminal groups, according to a report released by the Washington Post on Thursday, Oct. 29. “In a classified study produced in 2018 but not previously reported, CIA analysts concluded that
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