Proof of Mexico’s Internal Fentanyl Manufacturing Grows
The chemicals required to make fentanyl aren’t manufactured in Mexico, but everything else is
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Sinaloa Zookeepers Help Save Colombian Drug Lord’s Hippos
Recently, Colombia declared the hippos an invasive species because they reproduced without any human intervention, and nobody took care of them
Read moreThe Atlantic Calls AMLO ‘The Autocrat Next Door’
“Liberal democracy in Mexico is under assault. Worse, the attacker is the country’s own president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador,” the article said.
Read moreSon of ‘El Chapo’ Detained in Sinaloa
Tensions between the cartels and authorities had reached the point that the Culiacán government on Jan. 4 ordered public schools closed and asked residents to remain in their houses
Read moreDespite Package against Inflation, Price of Tortilla Increases
By MARK LORENZANA Despite the tortilla being one of the 24 products of Mexico’s basic basket included in the Package Against Inflation and Famine (PACIC), its price has increased from May to September of this year. On April 4, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced to the public a new price-control initiative — the PACIC – that established cost protection
Read moreThe Dark Period When ‘Los Chapitos’ Assassinated 16 Policemen
By MARK LORENZANA On the morning of Sept. 30, 2016, a military convoy was ambushed by members of the Sinaloa Cartel on the highway that connects the municipalities of Badiraguato and Culiacán in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa. According to the version of the Mexican Army, three hours earlier, a military checkpoint tried to stop a truck in the
Read moreDeutsche Welle: Morena Made ‘Electoral Narco-Pact’ with Cartel
By MARK LORENZANA Anabel Hernández, a Mexican investigative journalist with Germany’s esteemed state-run news agency Deutsche Welle, said in her weekly column on Friday, June 3, that officials from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) had made an “electoral narco-pact” with members of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel leading up to the June 5 gubernatorial elections.
Read moreNinth Journalist Killed This Year in Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Luis Enrique Ramírez Ramos, whose body was discovered on Thursday, May 5, on a dirt road near Culiacán, Sinaloa, became the ninth journalist killed so far this year in Mexico. Remírez Ramos’s body was discovered wrapped in black plastic. He reportedly died from multiple blows to the head. Ramírez Ramos’ news website, “Fuentes Fidedignas,”
Read moreVa Por México Alleges Criminal Intervention in 2021 Elections
By KELIN DILLON In a new filing with the Organization of American States (OAS), Mexico’s three-party Va por México alliance consisting of the National Action Party (PAN), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has accused Mexican organized crime of interfering with the nation’s 2021 electoral process through ballot box stuffing, violence and intimidation,
Read moreSinaloa Police Chief Gunned Down
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Sinaloa Police Chief Joel Ernesto Soto was assassinated early Monday, May 24, along the Culiacán-Los Mochis Highway, according to local authorities. The attack occurred following a series of assaults against state police in various parts of Sinaloa, especially near Culiacán. On May 15, Sinaloa police and the National Guard launched a joint operation against
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