By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A group of about 300 students from Mexico’s Ayotzinapa Normal College, in the coastal state of Guerrero, launched a trailer truck with no brakes at members of the National Guard (GN) on Saturday, Feb. 5, after the GN prevented them from taking control of a toll booth along the Autopista del Sol Mexico City-Acapulco
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) indicted two former investigative experts, Mauricio Cerón Solana and Patricia Gómez Ramírez, before a federal court late last week for allegedly altering and losing evidence of the search for the 43 education students from Ayotzinapa who disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, in 2014. This is the first time that the
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By KELIN DILLON Less than a week after families of the 43 disappeared students from Mexico’s Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the federal government to demand answers about the military’s involvement in the 2014 event, the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero released the military’s 239-page statement as
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Ayotzinapa Investigation: No End in Sight
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Tug-of-War
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Interior Secretariat’s Deputy Attorney for Human Rights Alejandro Encinas said Friday, Sept. 24, that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had sent a letter to newly instated Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett formally requesting the extradition of the former head of Mexico’s Criminal Investigation Agency, Tomás Zerón de Lucio. At a press conference,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Eight years after 43 teaching students disappeared from the Ayotzinapa university campus in the Guerrero town of Iguala after being detained by police for rioting, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, May 24, that the U.S. government will be helping his administration to further investigate the still-unresolved case. Speaking during his daily
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO and Corral Trade Verbal Punches On Friday, Sept. 18, Mexican Security Undersecretary Ricardo Mejía Berdeja named eight well-to-do Chihuahua farming families that he accused of “hoarding” 35 million cubic meters of Rio Conchos water, representing a full 12.5 percent of the water that is owed to the United States. One person alone, Mejía Berdeja said, is
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By RICARDO CASTILLO By the time you read this news item, a jet that took off from Mexico City on Tuesday, July 14, will have landed in Madrid. The unidentified jet, either property of or hired by the Fiscal General of the Republic, has one sole objective. And that is to bring back to Mexico the former head of country’s
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