By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to an extensive investigation conducted by the U.S. Spanish-language television network Univision, Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero — who has already earned himself considerable public ridicule and distrust for prosecuting his 94-year-old sister-in-law and her family in order to expropriate their inheritance from his late brother, and for trying to incarcerate 31
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Pandora Papers, which were released on Sunday, Oct. 3, by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), exposing the offshore financial havens and hidden riches of some of the world’s biggest movers and shakers, has opened a whole new can of worms for the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) continues to wage war on the country’s scientific community, it has consistently ignored the year-plus long evidence presented by the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) outlining the Green Party’s new San Luis Potosí Governor Ricardo Gallardo Cardona’s alleged illegal enrichment and money laundering of 724 million pesos. Back in August
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In what seems like a little bit of very justified tit-for-tat, the family of Laura Morán Servín, widow of Federal Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero’s late brother Federico Gertz Manero, filed a request on Wednesday, Sept. 22, with Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) to investigate allegedly illicit deposits by their in-law in foreign tax havens for
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican pop singer and international superstar Gloria Trevi and her husband, Armando Gómez Marínez, are currently under investigation by Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) on alleged tax evasion charges, the Finance Secretariat (SHCP) announced Monday, Sept. 20. According to UIF, the couple is being charged with the tax evasion of more than 400 million
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Morelos Governor and former Mexican soccer great Cuauhtémoc Blanco Bravo definitely earned himself a yellow card from his constituents over the weekend when he was seen teeing off with businessman Arturo Elías Ayub and the former soccer goalkeeper Jorge Campos at a Cocoyoc golf course on Sunday, Sept. 19, while the Yautepec River and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican Labor Party Deputy Mauricio Toledo just can’t seem to dodge the bullets that keep being hurdled at him for alleged illicit enrichment and other criminal charges. Toledo, who took office in 2018 as part of the majority party National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) leftist coalition, is currently being investigated by the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City,
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By KELIN DILLON At the request of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR), a federal judge ordered the issuing of an arrest warrant against the National Action Party (PAN) governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, for alleged actions of organized crime and money laundering. Cabeza de Vaca has been the center of Mexican political news over the past
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a series of accusations of sexual abuse and rape began to mount against Mexican businessman and internationally recognized thinker Andrés Roemer Slomianski, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) formally ordered his arrest him on Wednesday, May 5. According to the FGR, after extensive investigation, it decided that there was sufficient evidence against Roemer for
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It doesn’t take much to earn yourself a “fiscal review” under the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). In fact, just being from an opposition party is grounds enough for AMLO to sic his fiscal dogs on you, shove you in jail with no hopes of parole (and no tangible evidence against you) and
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