By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Disgruntled Mexican truck drivers used their vehicles Tuesday, April 12, to block southbound movements by U.S. carriers at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in Tamaulipas following a move by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to increase safety inspections at state border ports. Abbott’s decision to increase the inspections came in response to U.S. President Joe Biden’s
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While most of the civilized world was busy condemning Vladimir Putin for his alleged war crimes and attempted genocide of the Ukrainian people on Wednesday, April 6, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) preferred to use the bully pulpit of his daily press conference to instead condemn members of the U.S. Congress for “daring” to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly 1,000 Ukrainians who fled to Mexico after Russia’s violent invasion of their country and who have been waiting in Tijuana to enter the United States were moved to a sports center converted into a makeshift shelter on Monday, April 4, Mexican government sources said. The Ukrainians, about 30 percent of whom are children,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As the Easter Week holiday approaches — a key period in the Mexican religious calendar and a time when many migrants return home temporarily to be with their families — numerous Mexican workers reentering the country have reported being extorted by agents of the National Institute of Migration (INM) near the border town of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF During the early hours of Tuesday, March 15, the alleged leader of Mexico’s Northwest Cartel, Juan Gerardo Trevino, alias “El Huevo,” was handed over to U.S. authorities at the Tijuana International Airport, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) reported. Without leaving the airport facilities, El Huevo was handed over to U.S. agents via the binational
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Shots were fired just outside the U.S. consulate compound in the northern border town of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, late Sunday, March 13, immediately following the arrest of the high-ranking drug cartel leader, Juan Gerardo Trevino, alias “El Huevo,” authorities reported. No embassy personnel were reported wounded. The consulate is located next to a Mexican
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican Senator Xóchitl Gálvez, a member of the country’s conservative National Action Party (PAN) opposition, said Tuesday, Feb. 22, that a conflict-of-interest complaint she filed with the U.S. Security Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this month had received the go-ahead to proceed with a financial audit of contracts between Mexico’s state-run Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company and the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The now-notorious million-dollar Texas mansion where Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) eldest son, José Ramón López Beltrán, resided for a year and which was owned by senior executive of the Baker Hughes company, a company that currently holds contracts with the López Obrador administration for more than $151 million in works for
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By KELIN DILLON In an opinion piece published in the Washington Post on Sunday, Feb. 6, Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola A. – a perennial target of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) public denouncements of Mexico’s modern media – detailed the regular attacks López Obrador has taken against the country’s journalists for reporting facts, calling journalism AMLO’s
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In the latest edition of his weekly digital news program Latinus on Saturday, Jan. 29, internationally acclaimed journalist Carlos Loret de Mola presented a report on an extensive investigation, conducted in cooperation with the nonprofit Mexicans against Corruption, revealing the lush lifestyle of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO), José Ramón López Beltrán,
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