An Americas Summit, without AMLO
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreTag Archives: U.S. State Department
1,300-Year-Old Maya Head Unearthed at Palenque
PULSE NEWS MEXICO A stucco head of a young Maya god of corn, dating back over 1,300 years, was unearthed in the Palenque archeological zone in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) reported Tuesday, May 31. The discovery was recorded during the 2021 archeological exploration season sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Ambassadors
Read moreUS to Stop Receiving Ukrainian Migrants Entering from Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Joe Biden administration on Thursday, April 21, announced that it will simplify the legal processing of Ukrainian refugees seeking asylum from Europe, but will no longer allow migrants from that war-torn country to enter from Mexico. The new streamlined program, due to take effect on Monday, April 25, will fast-track some 100,000 refugee
Read moreUS Senators Lodge Complaint against AMLO for Judicial Abuse
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Four members of the U.S. Senate, led by Bob Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday, April 6,stating that there is mounting evidence that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is attacking the
Read moreThe Gall of a Shameless President
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
Read moreUS Allows Travel Home on Expired Passports
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. Embassy in Mexico announced on Friday, March 25, that, starting immediately, some U.S. citizens with expired passports will now be able to enter the United States using those passports. According to the embassy announcement, U.S. citizens currently overseas with a passport expired on or after Jan. 1, 2020, are now be able
Read moreUS Ambassador Rebukes Mexico for Affinity with Russia
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar reprimanded Mexico’s lower house Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, March 24, for launching a Mexico-Russia Friendship Group one day earlier with Moscow’s envoy Víktor Koronelli in tow. Speaking before the same parliamentarians, Salazar said that in the midst of Russia’s brutal invasion into Ukraine, “this sort of endorsement”
Read moreRussian Envoy ‘Congratulates’ AMLO for Not Imposing Sanctions
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was announcing that the Joe Biden administration had determined Russia had indeed committed war crimes in Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to Mexico Víktor Koronelli went before Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, March 23, to “congratulate” the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for not
Read moreThe World in Turmoil
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreUS State Department Says Corruption Still Rampant in Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. State Department released its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) on Tuesday, March 1, noting that “organized crime groups continue to have influence over high-ranking officials within the Mexican government in an environment where corruption persists.” In the report, the INCSR said that this persistent ubiquity of corruption “hinders the fight
Read more