By RICARDO CASTILLO Just when former President Enrique Peña Nieto thought Mexicans had forgotten him forever and ever, his name hit back in the news bigtime again on Tuesday, June 18, when a Mexico City daily ran a leaked report linking him to a corruption investigation that occurred during his 2012-2018 shift in office. The news item stated that the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S. President Donald J. Trump is off visiting the queen in England, but he did not forget that he’s got a bone to pick with Mexico. And to remind everyone that “President Trump is dead serious about taxing Mexican imports,” he left behind acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvane, who on Sunday, June 2, kept
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Echoes of the mysterious meeting Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had with Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, last March 19 are now thundering across the political landscape. The following day, as reported by Pulse News Mexico, AMLO said, “Basically, we dealt with the issue of (joint) development cooperation, and about the possible signing of a
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Who’s behind the letter President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent to the king of Spain earlier this week demanding an apology for the atrocities against Mexican natives committed on orders of the king’s Borbón predecessors during 300 years of colonial rule from 1521 through 1821? The simple answer is, his wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller. Did she really
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In response to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) repeated Robert Owen-esque (“save me and thee”) tirades that all previous government leaders were corrupt and had sold the country out for personal gain, former President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, who served between 2006 and 2012, issued a tweet on Monday, Feb. 4, stating that he categorically
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A small incident provoked by a well-known journalist highlighted a problem that is beleaguering the current Mexican electoral process. Over the past weekend, the news that political columnist Ricardo Alemán had been fired by two television stations was news. Curiously enough, Alemán was not fired for any content in his two political programs. He was fired for forwarding
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has been down in the polls for so long that he’d forgotten what it felt like being up. That sensation, however, somewhat eased last week as he delivered a speech politely calling upon U.S. President Donald Trump to reign back his egregious horses. The reaction to his speech was monumental. Immediately, every
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There is a vast chasm between tweet and fact. There was a worldwide sense of panic and urgency last week — including here in Mexico — when Tweeting Donald threatened to slap tariffs of 10 and 25 percent, respectively, on aluminum and steel. But there is no real need to worry, at least, not for now. U.S. President
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