By RICARDO CASTILLO Once upon a time, back on Dec. 2, 2012, when former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto appointed Rosario Robles Berlanga as the Social Development (Sedesol) Secretary, this columnist published an article in The News – then the only English-language daily in Mexico – claiming that Rosario was “a woman for all seasons” and “a survivor.” That may
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The 10-page-long resignation letter Senator Germán Martínez Cázares sent to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, May 21, resigning from the directorate post of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) marked a turn of political chess castling even before the president has been in office for six months. Immediately after Martínez Cázares’
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The rumblings of a head-on clash between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) press secretary, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, and journalists could be heard loud and clear since the last week of February. Back then, during a conference at the School for Social and Political Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Ramírez Cuevas announced
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a second round of votes, the Mexican Senate on Tuesday, March 12, elected Yasmín Esquivel Mossa to be the newest member of the National Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN), for a period of 15 years, substituting former Supreme Court Judge Margarita Luna Ramos. A graduate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s new ambassador to the United Nations, Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez, presented diplomatic credentials to UN Secretary General António Guterres in a brief ceremony on Monday, Feb. 18. A U.S.-trained medical psychiatrist who was secretary of health under former President Ernesto Zedillo and an academician who served as rector at the National Autonomous University
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The behemoth New International Mexico Airport (NAIM) project was declared defunct on Monday, Oct. 29, by President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) after the “no” vote triumphed overwhelmingly during the four-day (Oct. 25 through Oct. 28) national consultation poll carried out by the now-ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party. The airport construction, at about 20 percent completion (32
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Around the globe, 1968 is the one year during the second half of the 20th century that is most remembered by historians as a year of social unrest because to the large amount of university student rebellions that took place. Of all of them (in France, Germany and definitely the United States, among others), perhaps the only
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