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Mexican Attorney General’s Arbitrary Belief in Accused Pemex Bribes

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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) seemingly believes everything that disgraced former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya’s claims surrounding who received bribes during his time at the company, despite several witnesses offering testimony to the contrary. After admitting himself to have received bribes from corrupt Brazilian company Odebrecht after his extradition back to Mexico in

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Hurricane Grace Leaves Eight Dead, Three Missing in Mexico

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XINHUA At least eight people are dead and three missing after Hurricane Grace hit eastern Mexico, Cuitlahuac García, governor of the state of Veracruz, reported on Saturday, Aug. 21, Grace, the second Atlantic hurricane of the season, made landfall in the early hours of Saturday with winds of up to 205 kilometers per hour, leading to severe flooding in more

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Mexico’s Referendum Results Keep Getting Uglier

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It was bad enough that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted public consulta (referendum) on Sunday, Aug. 1, to decide whether to prosecute his predecessors for their alleged misdeeds was a total disaster in terms of turnout (early estimates put eligible voter participation at between 7.07 and 7.74 percent; the final count was 7.11 percent),

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The AMLO Administration’s Slow Affisciation of the Truth

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just 24 hours after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) decried a report in Reforma noting that 56 human rights activists had been killed so far during his presidency as “false” and “a political conspiracy aimed at discrediting his administration,” the government’s own Secretariat of the Interior (Gobernación, or Segob) pointed out that the newspaper’s figures

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Mexico Gives 2 Billion to Baseball, Leaving Others in the Outfield

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By KELIN DILLON New reports show that Mexico’s federal government has invested nearly 2 billion pesos into the funding of new baseball fields for the country, while only giving 830 million pesos to the National Institute of Women, despite the country’s femicide rate rising by 7.1 percent in 2021 from the previous year. The government has reportedly attempted to justify

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Arrest Warrant Issued for Interjet Founder

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) has issued an arrest warrant for grounded Interjet airlines founder and entrepreneur businessman Miguel Alemán Magnani for the alleged crime of tax evasion for the sum of 66.285 million pesos, judicial sources reported Thursday, July 8. Aléman Magnani — grandson of former Mexican President Miguel Alemán Valdés (1946-1952)

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Mexico Limits Fuel Imports to State-Run Agencies

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The leftist government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced this week that it will now restrict fuel imports to state-run agencies, thus dealing yet another blow to private-sector energy companies. On June 11, the Mexico’s Tax Administration Service (SAT) published a change to its foreign trade rules forbidding private parties from

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AMLO’s Assistants Handed High-Ranking Jobs

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By KELIN DILLON More than a dozen members of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) team of assistants have quickly transcended their roles at his side into high-level government positions, a new report from El Universal has shown. The former assistants have been handed jobs in places ranging from the country’s Tax Administrative Service (SAT) to the National Commission

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