By JESSICA GUERRERO Mexico’s independent life as a republic began in 1821, 200 years ago. But the first hundred years of the country’s autonomy were dizzying and plagued with numerous internal conflicts. These events and circumstances unleashed the Mexican Revolution that broke out in 1910, and consisted of a civil war between several regional revolutionary forces against the authoritarian regime of
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By KELIN DILLON After testing positive for covid-19, former Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada, who was in office from 2000 to 2006, and his wife Martha Sahagún were hospitalized on Saturday, Aug. 7, to treat the illness. Both Fox and his wife are reportedly stable with no serious symptoms. The former first couple of Mexico had already completed their full
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Voting for a Rigmarole The 11-member Mexican Supreme Court vote to allow a referendum to be held to decide whether to bring to trial past presidents for crimes allegedly committed while in they were in power past last week in two stages. The first stage was to decide if the public referendum is constitutional. The referendum’s constitutionality
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party’s national council voted unanimously to sponsor a nationwide signature collecting campaign to request a public referendum on whether or not to launch legal inquiries into the alleged crimes of corruption by former presidents, specifically, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Vicente Fox Quesada, Felipe
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