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Deputies to File Complaint with Attorney General Due to Vaccine Expiry

By MARK LORENZANA Deputies from three Mexican political parties — the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Citizens’ Movement (MC) — are set to file an official complaint with Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) for the expiry and wastage of more than 5 million covid-19 vaccines. On Saturday, Sept. 25, Mexican daily

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US Evidence Ties Mexican Military, Police to Guerreros Unidos Cartel

By MARK LORENZANA The U.S. government has evidence that allegedly links members of the drug-running criminal group Guerreros Unidos to the Mexican Army, Navy and municipal police of Iguala and Cocula, in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. In a report by Mexican daily newspaper Reforma on Tuesday, Sept. 27, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR) presented to

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More than 5 Million Covid-19 Vaccines Expire in Mexico

By MARK LORENZANA Mexican daily newspaper Reforma, on Saturday, Sept. 25, reported that 5.4 million covid-19 vaccines had expired in Mexico and are set to be thrown away. Of the total wasted vaccines, 3.4 million are of the AstraZeneca brand, donated by the U.S. government, and stored in a warehouse of the Biological and Reagent Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex) in Cuautitlán Izcalli, in

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After Electricity Reform Failure, AMLO Pivots to Lithium

By KELIN DILLON Just one day after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform was blocked from passing by opposition members of the Chamber of Deputies, López Obrador returned with a new initiative – legislation nationalizing Mexico’s natural lithium supply – for the parliamentary chamber to vote on during its Monday, April 18, session. Never one to

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Former Coahuila Governor Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

By KELIN DILLON Former interim governor of the Mexican state of Coahuila, Jorge Torres López, was sentenced to three years in federal prison by a Texas court on Wednesday, June 23, for the crime of money laundering. The 67-year-old, who replaced Humberto Moreira as Coahuila’s governor for a brief time in 2011, pleaded guilty to the charges in June 2020.

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New US Testing, Quarantine Rules Deal Heavy Blow to Mexican Tourism

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The new travel rules imposed by the U.S. government for persons entering that country from abroad — which include proof of having had a negative antigen covid test within 72 hours of arrival and subsequent quarantine for up to 10 days — have set off major alarm bells for Mexico’s already-moribund tourism industry. In

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