By MARK LORENZANA The death of a second person as a result of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico on the afternoon of Monday, Sept. 19, was confirmed by authorities from the State Civil Protection Agency of the western Mexican state of Colima. Authorities reported that a person was found dead in the remains of a gym in the city
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Yet another Mexican state, Colima, in the central western part of the country, fell under a barrage of violence and vehicle burnings late Thursday, Aug. 18, following the arrest in Mexico City of José “La Vaca” Bernabé Brizuela, the alleged head of the Los Mezcales criminal group. According to police reports, vehicles were burned in both the municipalities
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory on Wednesday, Aug. 17, warning Americans not to visit six Mexican states — Zacatecas, Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán, Sinaloa and Tamaulipas, due to recent violent events in the country. The Level 3 advisory, which recommends reconsidering any travel plans to the regions, the second-highest warning the State Department makes, also
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Despite initial claims by National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party leader Mario Delgado to the contrary, the first national internal elections of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s leftist party on Saturday, July 30, and Sunday, July 31, were marred by claims of ballot stuffing, ballot box burnings and outright acts of violence, with videos of numerous of
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In recent weeks in Mexico, the national news headlines have pointed to the same issue: the growing numbers of missing and murdered women throughout the country. This social phenomenon is on the rise, with 969 gender-based murders of women last year alone. The first cases of mass femicide in Mexico that captured the
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The cultural diversity of Mexico today is the result of the syncretism of the native indigenous peoples and the Western culture, brought from Spain by the colonizers to the territory in 1521 that produced what we now know as the Mexican culture. Every aspect of the country’s indigenous cultures — includings language, religion, art
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) on Wednesday, March 23, passed a ruling endorsing the new Electric Energy Law (LIE), thus eliminating all legal cases filed in México against it. The new ruling was proposed by Supreme Court Justice Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, a former federal deputy from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least four narco-blockades were reported during the early hours of Monday, March 14, along the highways of the western Mexican state of Colima, hours after the arrest of Miguel Aldrín Jarquín Jarquín, alias “El Chaparrito,” leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Reports from motorists, mainly from heavy cargo carriers, indicated that
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The democratic political life of Mexico, as in many other Latin American nations, is relatively young. In the last decade, a new chapter began in the construction of Mexican politics after the sudden arrival to the presidency of a newly created party. Breaking through and eventually displacing the parties that historically held political hegemony
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By KELIN DILLON The newly sworn-in governors of Mexican states Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Sonora, Campeche, Nayarit and San Luis Potosí have raised concerns about the precarious financial situations of the states they inherited, noting the lack of funds present to pay payroll, pensions and providers. The National Action Party’s (PAN) Governor of Chihuahua María Eugenia Campos made note of a 11
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