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Two More Mexican Journalists Killed in a Single Week

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Two more Mexican journalists covering the country’s drug cartels and political corruption — photojournalist Margarito Martínez Esquivel and reporter José Luis Gamboa — were killed in the space of just one week for doing their jobs, adding to a total of at least 145 murdered reporters in the country in the last two decades

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The View from the North: AMLO’s Midterm Election Blues

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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Mexico held its largest midterm elections in history on Sunday, June 6, and the results weren’t great news for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). While his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) did gain political territory by winning 11 or 15 governorships up for grabs, the party lost large swathes of ground in Mexico City and

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