PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican Attorney General’s Office (FGR) announced late Tuesday, Aug. 2, that the federal Prosecutor’s Office is currently conducting an investigation into former President Enrique Peña Nieto on three counts of potential corruption: electoral crimes, money laundering and illicit enrichment-. In a written statement Tuesday night, the FGR said that it the investigation was sparked by various
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 1, the New York City Bar Association released a statement accusing the actions of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) continued public threats against Mexican judges who rule against him as violating international law and the legal standards for judicial independence as outlined by the Mexican Constitution, the American Convention on Human Rights
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO After more than two weeks of “temporary suspension,” the Mexican government’s public-information system CompraNet, which has been out of commission since Friday, July 15, the Treasury Secretariat (Hacienda) reported Monday, Aug. 1. CompraNet is an information system in Mexico through which citizens can openly search about purchases made with federal government resources at a national level, and
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS There is no accounting for how Mexico’s Treasury Secretariat’s (Hacienda) Tax Administration Service (SAT) decides who to prosecute and who to let slide, other than the fact that, like all government offices directly under Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), it takes its orders from the president. On Friday, July 29, the SAT notified the internationally disgraced
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Despite initial claims by National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party leader Mario Delgado to the contrary, the first national internal elections of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s leftist party on Saturday, July 30, and Sunday, July 31, were marred by claims of ballot stuffing, ballot box burnings and outright acts of violence, with videos of numerous of
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Former Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos was visiting a capital in the southeast of the country. As he got off the plane, the governor showed him the eight columns of a local newspaper that criticized the president. “What is this idiot (an obesity was actually used instead of the word “idiot”) thinking?” said López Mateos in
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced a plan on Friday, July 29, to provide water to the northern drought-ridden state of Nuevo León over the course of the next 10 years. The plan, which he announced during his daily morning press conference at the National Palace, encompasses a series of measures, including the use of
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OPINION By MAGDALENA CARRAL Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* Over the past few years, investment conditions in Mexico have been increasingly questioned by analysts and the media, citing decisions such as the cancellation of the Constellation Brands plant in Mexicali and the Mexico City New International Airport that was being constructed in Texcoco. Is it possible that
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OPINION PULSE NEWS MEXICO On the evening of Wednesday, July 27, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) “hosted” yet another dinner at the National Palace for 50 of the country’s leading business community, and — true to AMLO form — the meal ended up being extremely costly … for the guests. The dinner, which was attended by members of
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