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2022: A Lethal Year in Michoacán

By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Figures indicate that an average of 86 people are violently murdered each day in Mexico in 2022. Almost all the causes have a common denominator, and that is the drug violence that prevails throughout the country. Massacres, forced disappearances and shootings are the daily bread in states like Jalisco, Tamaulipas, Guanajuato, Zacatecas and Michoacán. In

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Michoacán’s Pueblos Unidos: Empowered Farmers or Vigilante Terrorists?

By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — During the last two weeks, the country has faced a serious security crisis, after several violent incidents took place across cities located in the states of Baja California, Chihuahua and Guanajuato, where different organized crime groups directly attacked civilians and set fires to dozens of businesses and private vehicles. The aforementioned resulted, in the first

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Despite Military Presence, Michoacán Reports 694 Murders So Far This Year

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite a strong military presence sent by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) late last year to curb mounting violence in that state, Michoacán has registered at least 694 murders so far this year, according to official figures. The special operations and the incursion of thousands of soldiers and National Guardsmen into Michoacán

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Drug Trafficking War Escalates in Michoacán

By KELIN DILLON Throughout a 48-hour period at the beginning of the week of Feb. 14, organized crime groups and cartels operating out of Mexico’s Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range in the Michoacán region executed 27 murders in typically violent narco-style, demonstrating the clear weaponry strength of the region’s criminal organizations and affecting the area’s important international avocado trade.

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An Agricultural Crisis in Mexico’s Most Fertile Region

By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — More than four months have passed since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced, in his most recent visit to the region, the implementation of a Support Plan for the central Mexican state, which was suppose to transform the future of the wartorn state by promoting the development of its inhabitants and guaranteeing

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An Espionage Scandal and Gubernatorial Excesses

OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A few weeks ago, a media scandal erupted in Mexico after the announcement of an arrest warrant issued by federal authorities for well-known television host Inés Gómez Mont and her husband Victor Manuel Álvarez Puga. The Mexican government issued an international Interpol alert against the couple in order to prevent their possible flight to

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AMLO Announces Plan to Solve Michoacán’s Chaotic Woes

By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — After years of evident indifference and lack of interest in the internal affairs of the central Mexican state of Michoacán, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) finally paid a long-overdue visit to the state last weekend. And this time, he was neither defiant nor apprehensive about the trip. On the contrary, he seemed happy

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