By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just days after Mexican journalists Margarito Martínez Esquivel and José Luis Gamboa were killed on Jan. 17 and Jan. 10, respectively, yet another reporter, Lourdes Maldonado of Tijuana’s Semanario del Séptimo Día, was murdered on Sunday, Jan. 23, presumably for her legal disputes with former Baja California Governor Jaime Bonilla. Maldonado, who was shot
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican journalist Abraham Mendoza Mendoza was murdered on Monday, July 19, in the parking lot of a gym on Madero Poniente Avenue in the city of Morelia, Michoacán, according to local police authorities. According to witnesses, Mendoza Mendoza was surrounded by his attackers and shot at point-blank range as he was leaving the gym,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS More than 650 Mexican journalists, filmmakers, writers, lawyers and other intellectual thinkers signed an open letter to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, Sept. 17, imploring him to respect freedom of the press. “President López Obrador uses his constant public discourse to stigmatize and defame those he deems to be his adversaries,” read the letter,
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Silencing the Mexican Media
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While newly inaugurated Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was busy celebrating his elaborate and elongated, multi-sited inaugural ceremony, entertaining more than 20 foreign heads of state – including the likes of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro (a shining pillar of Latin American democracy, justice and respect for human rights, at its very best), Bolivian President Evo
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A six-year term of blatant fiscal corruption and barefaced political abuse may finally be winding down for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN) and his cabinet of cronies, who are due to leave office (not any too soon) at the end of November. But despite indisputable evidence of financial embezzlement, political malfeasance, shady backroom deals and outright robbery, Peña
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican authorities arrested six suspects on Wednesday, March 28, on charges related to the January slaying of Tamaulipas journalist Carlos Domínguez Rodríguez. Domínguez Rodríguez, who was an independent reporter for a local newspaper in the northern border town of Nuevo Laredo, was stabbed two dozen times in front of relatives on Jan.
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