By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Feb. 28, Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) finally decided upon a date to discuss the case of Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero’s deceased brother, Federico Gertz, whose death has caused has caused repeated controversy among Gertz and his extended family, with the case now set for SCJN intervention on March 14. The
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican composer Rubén Fuentes Gasson, best known for his popular songs “La Bikina” and “El Son de la Negra,” died Saturday, Feb. 5, in hospital at age 95, from natural causes. Over his seven-decade career, Fuentes Gasson recorded more than 300 songs, according to the Society of Authors and Composers of Mexico (SACM). A
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Former U.S. envoys and military commanders plead for Afghanistan
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican actor Octavio Ocaña, star of the television series “Vecinos” for more than 16 years, was killed on Friday, Oct. 29, in the State of Mexico’s Cuautitlán Izcalli municipality, just outside Mexico City. The 22-year-old actor was shot dead while inside a gray Jeep that he owned after allegedly being chased by local police
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) figures, a total of 200,256 Mexicans died of covid-19 infections in 2020, a figure that is 34.7 percent higher than the 148,629 cases reported by the Public Health Secretariat (SSA) at the close of last year. The SSA figures only counted covid deaths that occurred
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By KELIN DILLON In the 24 hour period from June 21 to June 22, a total of 261 people died in Mexico from covid-19, bringing the country’s death toll, as confirmed by the Secretariat of Public Health, to 231,505. Likewise, another 4,223 positive cases were recorded in the same time frame, taking Mexico’s active case load to an estimated 25,060
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