By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A full month after Mexico’s June 6 midterm elections — the largest in the country’s history — Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo is claiming that the results were illegal since the election was heavily influenced by organized crime groups. Aureoles Conejo, a member of the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), which formed
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The central western Mexican state of Michoacán is at war. For now, an eerie calm prevails, but the state’s 4.7 million residents know full well that that tenuous ceasefire can be broken at any moment Michoacán is ground zero for a turf war between the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), formerly known as the Zetas, and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In his self-aggrandizing address to the nation on Thursday, July 1, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said that the country’s fight against organized crime was “well in hand” and that there were only three cartels currently operating in Mexico. That, it seems, is news to the cartels. In fact, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement
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By KELIN DILLON A power vacuum emerged in Mexico after the nation’s June 6 elections, leading to five horrific massacres across the country. One of the most violent, a gruesomely altercation in Zacatecas that left 19 dead, was reportedly caused by a bloody territory war between the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel, experts say. The Zacatecas
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s leftist National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) candidate for mayor of Huetamo, Michoacán, Rogelio Portillo Jaramillo, is reportedly wanted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for the crime of conspiracy. Portillo Jaramillo has been identified by the DEA as heavily associated with Mexico’s violent New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG), with the current intelligence file
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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 THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS INE Tells AMLO to Respect Democratic Process Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his bosom buddy Félix Salgado Macedonio just don’t know how to take “no” for an answer. After Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) banned Salgado Macedonio from running for governor of the Pacific state of Guerrero as AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena)
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By KELIN DILLON Reports coming from the Mexican state of Jalisco say that infamous drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho,” has built his own hospital in the region in an unusual gesture of goodwill for the increasingly violent crime boss, and also in an apparent attempt to help combat the kidney disease he apparently suffers from.
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) has reportedly spread its influence over the past four years into the states of Michoacán, Zacatecas and Guanajuato, with narco trafficking-linked violence in the regions increasing more and more as time goes on. The CJNG is known for its military-like tactics, using camouflage and heavy-duty artillery, with weapon stockpiles so powerful
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Cienfuegos, Talk of the Town The release last week of former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos from an imminent trial in the United States by U.S. Attorney General William Barr continues to be the talk of the day in Mexico. The fact is is that nobody has the hard facts needed to have a sound opinion on
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