By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Miguel Barbosa, the governor of the central Mexican state of Puebla, dismissed the mass murder of nine people in the town of Atlixco on Wednesday, March 10, since, in his words, “they were not from the state, and besides, they were drug traffickers.” Barbosa, a member of President Andrés Manuel López Obradro’s (AMLO) leftist
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. State Department released its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) on Tuesday, March 1, noting that “organized crime groups continue to have influence over high-ranking officials within the Mexican government in an environment where corruption persists.” In the report, the INCSR said that this persistent ubiquity of corruption “hinders the fight
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what constituted Mexico’s largest mass murder of the year so far, an estimated 17 people were taken hostage during a wake at a funeral home in San José de Gracia, Michoacán, a town on the border with Jalisco, and shot dead in the outside street. The mass execution, which was videotaped by witnesses, was
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF On the eve of the start of the Mexican Tennis Open 2022 (one of the most important Acapulco tourist events of the year, set to run from Monday, Feb. 21, through Saturday, Feb. 26), and despite efforts by local and federal authorities to reinforce security measures, at least 80 sales stands were set ablaze
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Two people were killed and four injured, including one international tourist, during a cartel shootout at a luxury resort near Cancun, Quintana Roo, on Thursday, Nov. 4. According to local police accounts, 15 men armed with long guns stormed the Puerto Morelos resort’s beach from a boat and opened fire on members of a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government warned on Wednesday, Oct. 20, that drug traffickers are recruiting children across the country through online video games. During the regular morning conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Public Security Undersecretary Ricardo Mejía Berdeja, spoke about a case called “Free Fire,” in which three minors were rescued in Oaxaca
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report published by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, Mexico is the fourth-most crime-ridden country in the world for illicit trades like drug and weapon trafficking, and takes the position of possessing the most intricate human trafficking network throughout North and South America. In its overall ranking, the Global Organized Crime Index
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Recent headlines and heart-wrenching images depict a tragic story of innocent families desperately trying to escape a chaotic situation that has transformed their homeland into of a disputed territory rife with war and unchecked violence where no government or international organizations dare to enter. But this time, the grim scenario is not playing out
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By KELIN DILLON The members of the Va Por México alliance, which consists of centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), announced they would be going to the Organization of American States (OAS) on Monday, Aug. 23 to denounce the involvement of organized crime in Mexico’s electrol
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — For decades, Mexico’s northern border has been a magnet for immigrants, both national and international, seeking economic refuge in the United States. But in recent months, the U.S.-Mexico border has also become a destination for thousands of displaced Mexicans who have fled their homes trying to escape the growing violence generated by organized crime
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