By MARK LORENZANA Elements of the Citizen Security Secretariat (SSC) of the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office, in coordination with Mexico’s National Defense Secretariat (Sedena), have seized drug shipments, searched homes and even detained leaders of Los Chapitos (Little Chapos), a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, which has been attempting to expand its operations in Mexico City for almost a
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By KELIN DILLON After seven days of work by the Water System of Mexico City (Sacmex) to discover the origin of reported waste flooding in residences across Mexico City’s Coyoacán municipality, the source of the water breach still has yet to be determined, adding further supply issues to the Mexican capital metropolitan area’s enduring drought issue, in which dams remain
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The long-awaited premiere of “Ten Cellos, in Concert” will be presented on Saturday, June 11, at Mexico City’s University Cultural Center, with a diverse repertoire ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach to Bad Bunny. The musicians of the Philharmonic of the Arts always surprise their audience, allowing them to remain current and full of ideas that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In observance of the upcoming Easter holiday, Mexico City’s Interventions Museum (MNI) in Coyoacán, opened an altar exhibit on Friday, April 8, dedicated to the Virgin of Dolores. The exhibit, which will be open to the public through May 15, outlines Mexico’s history of the religious practice of making Dolores altars. The placing of
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By KELIN DILLON On the heels of his scandal-ridden wedding in Guatemala, Santiago Nieto Castillo presented his resignation as the head of Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on Monday, Nov. 8, after three years in the role, to be replaced by founding member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) Pablo Gómez Álvarez. Nieto’s nuptials caught major flack in the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF An explosion resulting from an apparent natural gas leak in a home in Mexico City’s Avenida Coyoacán on Monday, Aug. 16, left at leastone person dead and 21 others injured, according to local authorities. The explosion occurred on the second floor of an apartment building located at Avenida Coyoacán 1909 on the corner of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Thugs in Uniforms Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) ever-expanding army of National Guard (GN) troops has been flexing its muscles in a violent show of force against civilians, proving once again that unbridled military power is a threat to the nation and the Mexican people alike. In just the last month alone, members of AMLO’s
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By RICARDO CASTILLO At the private club called the House of Coahuila, located in the lovely southern Mexico City’s Coyoacán municipality in Churubusco, right across the street from the Interventions Museum, every May 21, we commemorate the death by way of assassination in 1920 of Coahuila-born Mexican President Venustiano Carranza. Actually, many enthusiasts even organize trips into the Puebla mountains
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XINHUA Former Mexico international midfielder Manuel Negrete said Thursday, May 7, that he has tested positive for the coronavirus. The 61-year-old, now the mayor of Coyoacán — a municipality in the south of Mexico City — said he felt well and is resting at home under doctors’ orders. “I want to share with you that I tested positive for COVID-19,”
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS With the near-citywide water service suspension now entering its second week (with no end in sight) and Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) employees making personal fortunes by selling off tankers of potable water that are supposed to be provided free of charge by the government, Mexico City residents are up in arms and fighting mad. Particularly affected
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