Mexicans Sue Walmart over El Paso Shootings
XINHUA … Ten Mexican nationals are suing the U.S. chain store for failing to protect its customers in the El Paso mass shooting last August…
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US House Democrat Free Trade Working Group Meets with AMLO
By RICARDO CASTILLO … It’d seem that at the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, Thanksgiving is the make-or-break deadline for approving the USMCA…
Read moreMexico’s Children Heroes
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Each September, the people of Mexico pay homage to a group of six military school boys known as the nation’s Niños Héroes (Children Heroes). Although there is to this day much debate as to the accuracy of their tragic tale, their fateful sacrifice at Chapultepec Castle is regarded as an example of national
Read moreGas Supply for CFE and Mexican Industry Assured
By RICARDO CASTILLO There’s an old Mexican adage that says that it is cheaper to make a poor deal than to fight a great fight. This might seem to be exactly what happened in the negotiations headed by Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) Director Manuel Bartlett Díaz and seven gas pipeline companies that signed contracts for gas ducts with the
Read moreWitnessing ‘Un Horrór Norteamericano’ from Mexico
By MATT SEDDON Like everyone else, I watched the terrible and tragic killings in El Paso and Dayton on Saturday, Aug. 3, and Sunday, Aug. 4, with horror and deep sadness. As an U.S. citizen, I felt profound loss and empathy for the victims and their families, as well as frustration, helplessness and despair as mass shootings, which we Americans
Read moreMexico’s National Guard Caught Off Guard
By RICARDO CASTILLO Just how the Mexican National Guard is going to operate as of Monday, June 10, along the 11-municipalities in the state of Chiapas – along the Guatemalan border – is anybody’s guess. Most likely, the promoter of the move, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), does not know either. And there are many reasons for
Read moreLabor Day Unionists Meeting Buries Charrismo
By RICARDO CASTILLO It was an odd but politically meaningful meeting at the National Palace on Wednesday, May 1 (International Labor Day), when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) offered an official lunch to the country’s most important union leaders. Odd because many of the leaders belong to a kind of club that is nicknamed in political circles the
Read moreGasoline Prices Up 12 Percent So Far This Year
By RICARDO CASTILLO Lest we forget: One of the unkept promises that helped to topple the popularity of former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto was his much-repeated outright lie that with his Energy Reform and Pemex joining free-market competition, “fuel prices will come down.” On Jan. 1, 2017, Peña Nieto made the grave error of liberating gasoline and diesel prices.
Read moreIn 1829, US Needed Wall with Mexico — To Keep People In!
By RICH GRANT and SID WILSON One of the great ironies of recent history is the talk about the need for a “wall” between the United States and Mexico. In 1829, there was a legitimate need for this wall. Not to keep people out of the United States, but to keep them in! That was because, in 1829, Mexico offered
Read moreMigrants Are Stressing the Border
By RICARDO CASTILLO The question of what to do with the thousands of Central American migrants passing through Mexico still remains unanswered. So far, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has opted to follow the same erratic policy begun by his predecessor, Enrique Peña Nieto, only to see the flux of migrants grow exponentially. The point being now that
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