García Luna Found Guilty on Five Counts
The jury delivered its verdict after a four-week trial and three days of deliberation in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn
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A Crime that Cannot Be Pardoned
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Thursday, Aug. 25, the international streaming platform Netflix released a controversial true-crime series titled “A Kidnapping Scandal: The Florence Cassez Affair,” which tried to clear the name of the French citizen Florence Cassez and her longtime Mexican boyfriend Israel Vallarta Cisneros, both of whom were arrested in 2005 and charged with possession of illegal firearms, involvement
Read moreEl Chapo’s Wife to Plead Guilty to Complicity in Drug Dealing
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of infamous jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, is expected to plead guilty on Thursday, June 10, to charges of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar empire and aiding in one of his escapes from the high-security Mexican prison, according to a person familiar with the case. Coronel
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By RICARDO CASTILLO An Irate Response After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) asked Supreme Court Chief Justice Arturo Zaldivar to order an investigation into Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro (who indefinitely suspended the president’s controversial new electricity bill), Zaldivar complied and requested the officer in charge of the Council of the Judiciary, Carlos Alpízar, to pay a visit
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreFormer Mexican Defense Head Detained in US
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,
Read moreEl Chapo Appeals Life Sentence
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Notorios convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has registered an appeal against his life sentence handed down last year by a U.S court for the trafficking of tons of narcotics into the United States over a 25-year period. The appeal was presented by Guzmán’s chief lawyer Marc Fernich late Friday, Sept. 3,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO and Calderón Exchange Barbs A tit-for-tat rift between former Mexican President Felipe Calderón and the current one, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has been going on throughout the last week. Accusations galore are flying. AMLO started the verbal spat by saying that during the 2006-2012 Calderón mandate, persons now being accused in the United States of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Legal “Drug Cartel” Busted One day after a fast track bill altering a federal government law was approved by the Senate, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday, July 31, oversaw the signing between the United Nations Office for Projects and Services (UNOPS) and the Public Health Secretariat of a $6.5 billion contract for the purchase
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO: “I’m not an ornamental vase” There must have been more to the matter than met the naked eye. If not, why did Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) raise so much hell over it? On Sunday, April 26, the Mexican Business Association and the investment department of the Inter-American Development Bank (BID) announced that they
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