By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO Welcomes Biden Newly instated U.S. President Joe Biden’s inaugural speech on Wednesday, Jan. 20, was welcomed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who said it was full of good news. Asked during his Thursday, Jan. 21, press conference whether he felt threatened by Biden, AMLO responded: “We have nothing to object to. On the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO No Lupe-Reyes Reveling The good news is that on Friday, Dec. 11, Mexico approved the Pfizer-BioNTech labs covid vaccine and will soon begin administering it to health workers and the nation’s most vulnerable. But while this may mean light at the end of the tunnel, for Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe (Lupe) worshipers, it did not come soon
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO General Salvador Cienfuegos arrived back in Mexico on Wednesday, Nov. 18, with all charges against him in the United States — for a myriad of crimes allegedly committed while he was the country’s defense secretary (between 2015 and 2017) — suddenly dropped by U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr. Not just you, but practically everyone in the media
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Cienfuegos, Talk of the Town The release last week of former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos from an imminent trial in the United States by U.S. Attorney General William Barr continues to be the talk of the day in Mexico. The fact is is that nobody has the hard facts needed to have a sound opinion on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) emphatically denied having threatened the United States with expelling its Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents from the country over the controversial arrest of former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos in Los Angeles last month. Speaking at his daily early morning press conference at the National Palace on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Now that former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda has returned to Mexico, he will be tried in a nonmilitary Mexican court based on evidence provided by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Wednesday, Nov. 18. Cienfuegos, who had faced drug-running and money-laundering charges in the United States
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a surprise move, U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced late Tuesday, Nov. 17, that his office would be dropping all charges against former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda. The decision to drop the charges against Cienfuegos in the United States came at the request of Mexico’s Fiscal General (FGR) in order for the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Migrants Try to Barge into Mexico Throngs of Central American migrants Sunday, Jan. 19, continued to gather along the Guatemalan border on Sunday, Jan. 19, with the intent of moving through Mexico to the United States. On Saturday. Jan. 18, approximately 1,500 of the mostly Honduran migrants attempted to stage their first show of force
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