OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After much hemming and hawing, and trying to use his attendance as a political leverage peck against U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, June 6, announced — finally — that he will not attend the four-day Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, which actually had begun that same
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO Old habits die hard! Mexico’s democratic political system is currently undergoing a return to an age-old political habit once known as “la sucesión” (“the succession”), in which one candidate was picked to replace the man in power. This succession routine became a political mainstay back in the days of one-party rule, and was ruthlessly enforced by
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had a 52-minute telephone conference with U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday, April 29, to discuss the surging immigration problem along the binational border, just as the United States is poised to lift the covid-era Title 42 ruling that has blocked migrants from crossing into the country
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The results of Mexico’s 2024 presidential election will be determined by the country’s middle class, a former Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) said this week. Writing in the April 11 edition of the newsletter of the U.S.-based trimonthly magazine Americas Quarterly, former SRE Undersecretary and current professor of public policy at the London School of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXiCO STAFF A U.S. judge in Boston, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, April 12, considered dismissing Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers, warning that it opened the door for potential suits from other nations, including Russia over arms used by Ukrainians in the current war. In August of last year, the Mexican government filed the suit
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The auction of a Pre-Columbian archaeological artifact, which was slated to go on the block at Vienna’s Zacke Gallery on Friday, March 11, was suspended this week thanks to the intervention of the Mexican government, the Austrian Embassy in Mexico announced on Thursday, March 10. The item, a carved stone ballgame yoke presumably from
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Former Brazilian President and current presidential hopeful Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) at the National Palace on Tuesday, March 1. The former Brazilian head of state, a diehard leftist who served as his nation’s president from 2003 to 2011 and who is running for a
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XINHUA Most of the weapons seized by authorities in Mexico over the last two years were manufactured in the United States, according to a report released Monday, Jan. 31, by the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE). Mexican security forces seized 18,091 U.S.-made weapons between Jan. 1, 2020, and Nov. 18, 2021, an average of 812 guns or other firearms a month,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — who is infamous for making unfounded and baseless accusations of corruption and other crimes against his political enemies and members of the press — said Wednesday, Jan. 19, that he would only consider formal legal suits currently under review in reconsidering his controversial appointment of former
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By KELIN DILLON After controversy arose following Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) appointment of former National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) professor Pedro Salmerón Sanginés, who has been accused of sexual harassment, as the Mexican ambassador to Panama on Jan. 17, López Obrador has since doubled down on his choice, saying he would wait for “evidence to be
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