By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a blow to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) ongoing efforts to concentrate all political power and federal spending decisions into his person, the country’s Supreme Court (CSJN) on Tuesday, April 5, ruled that he will no longer be able to decide how to discretionally dispose of financial resources saved by his
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By KELIN DILLON After nearly two years behind bars after being accused of negligent homicide by Mexico’s Attorney General (FGR) – and the accused’s uncle – Alejandro Gertz Manero, the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) granted Alejandra Morán Cuevas her plain and simple release into freedom on Monday, March 28, annulling the warrant for her arrest ordered against her and her
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In what was seen by many women in Mexico as a blatant affront to their cause to end the country’s surging levels of femicide and gender-based violence, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) marked Tuesday, March 8, International Women’s Day (M8), locked in the National Palace, congratulating himself for his political accomplishments (like, for example, more
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By KELIN DILLON In order to fulfill its obligations to hold a public mandate revocation consultation as ordered by Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF), the autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) is expected to request 1.73 billion pesos from the Secretary of Finance in order to follow through on the requested vote. The INE had previously canceled
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Supreme Court late Wednesday, Dec. 14, overturned part of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) presidential degree making all his administration’s megaprojects immune to public scrutiny. In response to a legal challenge filed by Mexico’s National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal, a Supreme Court judge ordered the partial suspension
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Don´t expect to seen any great changes occur during the second half of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year mandate. Based on what he has done so far, it is pretty clear that the next three years of AMLO’s leftist administration will follow the same strategy as it has up until now: social
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Supreme Court Chief Justice Arturo Zaldívar said Saturday, Aug. 7, that he will not accept an extension of his term, despite the fact that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) railroaded an initiate through Congress to allow a proposed breech of the constitution with a two-year extention. After four months of criticism from
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By KELIN DILLON Nine months after he became president of the Electoral Tribunal of Mexico’s Federal Judicial Branch (TEPJF), Judge José Luis Vargas was dismissed from his role by his fellow judges in the judicial body, with five out of the seven voting for his removal on Wednesday, Aug. 4, though controversy has ensued since as Vargas has refused to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Mexico’s Naval (Semar) Secretary José Rafael Ojeda Durán on Friday, July 16, for stating that he considers the country’s judiciary branch as an “enemy” because it includes judges who prevent arrests. “This is a clear symbol of the militarization of Mexico and the degradation of the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just in case you are wondering why Monday, March 15, is an official holiday here in Mexico, it is in observation of the 1807 birthday of five-time president Benito Juárez, a national hero who helped chase the French out of the country, overthrew the Hapsburg-imposed empire of Maximillian I, and restored the republic under a liberal regime
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