The enmeshment of the Mexican Armed Forces in Mexico’s daily violence was also highlighted by the State Department, especially considering the growing number of military human rights abuse reports across the last several years
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Former Mexican Federal Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam was arrested on Friday, Aug. 19, and subsequently interned in the North Prison for his alleged involvement in the Ayotzinapa case, the as-yet unsolved disappearance of 43 education school students in Iguala, Guerrero, in September 2014. Murillo Karam arrived Saturday, Aug. 20, at the North Prison in a government
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OPINION By MEREL HAENEN Nearly 14 inconclusive years have passed since Dan Jeremeel Fernández Morán was last seen driving in the vicinity of Gomez Palacio, a small Mexican town around three hours north of Durango’s state capital, on Dec. 19, 2008. The day of his disappearance, his mother, Yolanda Morán Isaís, was expecting him to arrive at a nearby, local
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By KELIN DILLON According to the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons, more than 100,000 persons have been reported missing and left unfound since the organization started keeping records in the 1960s, with most of the disappearances concentrated in states known for a strong presence of organized crime, like Jalisco, Tamaulipas and Veracruz, as well as highly-populated regions like
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OPINION By MEREL HAENEN After a 13-day nationwide manhunt, the lifeless body of missing Mexican teenager Debanhi Escobar was finally discovered on Thursday, April 21, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, inside an abandoned cistern just a few hundred meters from where she was last seen on the morning of her disappearance, in the early hours of Saturday, April 9. That much
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