By KELIN DILLON An analysis carried out by the National Private Security Council (CNSP) has revealed that Mexico has more than triple the number of homicides than the United States, despite having 23 times fewer weapons than its northern neighbor. The United States has 393.3 million firearms, or 1.18 for every inhabitant, while Mexico has 16.8 million firearms, only one
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By KELIN DILLON Power vacuums across Mexican states created by June 6’s midterm elections have caused a dramatic spike in lethal violence throughout the country, with over 57 dead in the past few weeks throughout the course of five massacres. Six people died during a riot in a prison in Villahermosa, Tabasco, followed by seven shot dead by gunmen in
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s June 6 midterms fast approach, an increase in violence and assassinations of candidates and politicians has seen little-to-no response from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) with any effectiveness in stopping the bloodshed. Back in March, López Obrador promised to create a plan to provide protection to aspiring politicians. Fast forward a month and a
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By KELIN DILLON Abel Murrieta, the Citizen’s Movement candidate for mayor of the Cajeme municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora, was assassinated in an armed attack in Ciudad Obregón on Thursday, May 13. The mayoral candidate was reportedly shot 10 times, including two bullets to the head, while distributing flyers for his campaign, and later died from his wounds
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By KELIN DILLON The U.S. Departments of Justice State, and Treasury have announced a $5 million bounty on Audias Flores Silva, also known as “The Gardener,” for any information relating to his capture, following his identification as one of the leaders of Mexico’s violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). A file was also opened against Flores Silva at the Office
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By KYLIE MADRY Dr. AMLO’s In Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) reported testing negative for covid-19 Wednesday, Oct. 21, following positive cases among several of his cabinet members over the past week. He threw in his two cents at his morning press conference, telling Mexicans to eat healthy to avoid catching the virus. “Don’t eat in excess, don’t
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City Police Chief Omar García Harfuch was gunned down in an assassination attempt against him in the early hours of Friday, June 26, in front of his Lomas de Chapultepec home in Mexico City. García Harfuch suffered injuries in the attack, which according to reports from residents living near the assault lasted more
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