By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) presented a list on Monday, Feb. 11, of nine high-ranking former government officials – including former President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa — who he said either worked for or collaborated with foreign companies in the electricity sector and contributed to á gradual destruction of the state-owned National Electricity Commission (CFE) that led
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Friday, Feb. 7, that his government will hold an open referendum on whether to allow the operation of a state-owned thermoelectric power plant in Yecapixtla, Morelos. The referendum will be held in all municipalities throughout the central Mexican state of Morelos, as well as in the neighboring states
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least 40,000 people in Mexico have vanished without a trace in the last 20 years, according to Undersecretary of the Interior (SeGob) for Human Rights Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez. “We estimate that there are currently about 40,000 disappeared persons in Mexico, more than 1,100 clandestine graves and 26,000 unidentified corpses in the nation’s morgues,”
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Chinese Ambassador to Mexico Xia Xiaoqi hosted an early Chinese New Year festival at his Colonia Pedregal residence on Saturday, Feb. 2. The event, which was cohosted by the Chinese Embassy, the Chinese Cultural Center and China Southern Airlines, was attended by Mexican Interior (SeGob) Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero, Tourism Secretary Miguel Torruco Márquez and Senate President
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The change over of presidents in Mexico is always a formal event, and this time was no exception, except for the fact that the style of doing things has changed. Some, if not all, of the stiff formality of yesteryear was absent in the proceedings that took place on Saturday, Dec. 1. The real change of administrations
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After about 500 mostly Central American migrants rushed the border near Tijuana, Baja California, in the late afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 24, U.S. authorities responded with a dispersal of tear gas the closing of the main point of entry into California, blocking off the major port of entry into San Ysidro, California, on Sunday afternoon
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By THE PULSE NEW MEXICO STAFF Conflicting reports as to whether the incoming administration of Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has made a closed-door deal with the government of U.S President Donald Trump that would require the growing throngs of Central American asylum seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border to remain in Mexico while their cases are reviewed continue to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After having been downgraded from a Category 5 to a Category 3, Hurricane Willa is set to slam into Mexico’s west coast in the early evening hours of Tuesday, Oct. 23, according to the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior (SeGob). But while Willa’s wind intensity — which reached 160 miles per hour late Monday
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By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is visiting Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Friday, Oct. 19. Pompeo is in a political tour visiting Panama and Mexico. apparently to discuss the volatile political and security situations both in Venezuela and Nicaragua. Yet surely Venezuela and Nicaragua can be ranked as priorities number two and three when confronted
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