PULSE NEWS MEXICO Just three days after introducing its controversial new public education plan — which prioritizes political indoctrination over academic study — and promising that it would initially only be used as a pilot program in 1,000 public schools, the administration of Mexico’s leftist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) .on Friday, Aug. 19, announced that, instead, it will
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By MARK LORENZANA Section 6 of the controversial Tren Maya, which will run from Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo to its capital city of Chetumal, will be the most destructive in environmental terms, and also the most expensive. The Environmental Impact Statement (MIA) for the 255-kilometer Section 6 of the Tren Maya — one of Mexican President
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO After more than three years of her detainment without bail — and just hours after the arrest of former Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam for his alleged ordering of the disappearances of 43 Ayotzinapa education school students in 2014 — Mexico’s Federal Attorney General Office¿ (FGR) late Friday, Aug. 19, ordered the immediate release of former Secretary
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Yet another Mexican state, Colima, in the central western part of the country, fell under a barrage of violence and vehicle burnings late Thursday, Aug. 18, following the arrest in Mexico City of José “La Vaca” Bernabé Brizuela, the alleged head of the Los Mezcales criminal group. According to police reports, vehicles were burned in both the municipalities
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar on Thursday, Aug. 18, warned that growing insecurity across a number of Mexican states could have a negative impact on foreign investment, including through the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). At a press conference at his Lomas de Chapultepec residence in Mexico City, Salazar said that the violence could also affect national
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE The Catholic Church has raised its critical voice on the distressing issue of crime in Mexico, all in good time. The call prompted me to talk with my friend, the Catholic poet Julio Hubard, about the ethical responsibility of the state to defend its citizens. Enrique Krauze: The government has wanted to surround the “hugs, not
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO According to preliminary numbers from Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), released on Thursday, Aug. 18, the nation’s economy shrank by 0.1 percent in July, constituting the third month in a row with a negative growth rate. In June, Mexico’s economy also contracted by 0.1 percent, and in May, it contracted by 0.2 percent, based
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By MARK LORENZANA For Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the recent acts of violence in the Mexican states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Guanajuato and Jalisco that left hundreds of people dead and property destroyed is but “an act of propaganda by criminal groups that my political opponents are taking advantage of.” In his daily morning press conference on
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Prosecutor’s Office of the Mexican Caribbean state of Campeche asked the Federal Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, Aug. 16, to begin the process to remove the criminal immunity of centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) leader and Federal Deputy Alejandro “Alito” Moreno because he is currently being investigated for alleged illicit enrichment, embezzlement and improper use of
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