By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 8, a Mexican federal judge struck down an arrest warrant involving allegations of money laundering and organized crime issued against former Secretary of Social Development (Sedesol) Rosario Robles, though she is set to remain in prison awaiting trial on other charges surrounding her time at Sedesol. Robles has been accused of using her position
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, June 8, the leader of Mexico’s controversial La Luz del Mundo Church, Naasón Joaquín García, son of church founder Eusebio Joaquín González, was sentenced to 16 years and 8 months in a U.S. prison by a judge in Los Angeles on charges surrounding his sexual abuse of three minor girls in his congregation. Originally arrested
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By KELIN DILLON In the one year following the May 3, 2021, tragic Line 12 metro accident in Mexico City that killed 26 passengers, few steps have been taken to ensure the preventable accident does not happen again, nor that its victims are taken care of. The collapsed portion’s reconstruction is still lagging on, Mexico City has avoided civil litigation
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A Mexican federal judge on Monday, Nov. 15, issued a preventive detention order, the Mexican equivalent of jail without bail, against Rosalinda González Valencia, wife of Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the alleged leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). González Valencia will remain confined in Federal Female Prison Number 16, located in
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By THE PULSE NEW MEXICO STAFF Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto allegedly received a $100 million bribe from the notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, according to a witness who testified in Guzmán’s trial on Tuesday, Jan. 15. The allegation against Peña Nieto, who served as the country’s 57th president until Nov. 30, when he was replaced
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