By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to Mexican government statistics, in the first month and a half of 2022, there were at least 33 mass murders in the country, with more than 147 victims. Most of the murders — almost all of which have been linked to organized crime groups — took place in six states where warring drug
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OPINION By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE It is a question that is becoming more and more relavent among those considering traveling to Mexico for a vacation: Are tourists in danger from cartel violence at Mexican beach resorts? The answer is, yes and no, but mostly no. A recent Washington Post story, titled “Tourist Drug Demand Is Bringing Cartel Violence to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Two Canadian tourists were shot dead on Friday, Jan. 21, in the Mexican resort town of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, inside their Xcaret Hotel. Additionally, another Canadian tourist was wounded when an unidentified man, apparently staying at that same hotel, opened fire in the hotel lobby after having a verbal altercation with the
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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,
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — More than four months have passed since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced, in his most recent visit to the region, the implementation of a Support Plan for the central Mexican state, which was suppose to transform the future of the wartorn state by promoting the development of its inhabitants and guaranteeing
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A Mexican federal judge on Monday, Nov. 15, issued a preventive detention order, the Mexican equivalent of jail without bail, against Rosalinda González Valencia, wife of Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the alleged leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). González Valencia will remain confined in Federal Female Prison Number 16, located in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just one month into his six-year term as governor of central northern Mexican state of Zacatecas, the administration of David Monreal Ávila, from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, has already racked up a roster of 220 drug-related murders, making for an average daily homicide rate of more
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In his self-aggrandizing address to the nation on Thursday, July 1, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said that the country’s fight against organized crime was “well in hand” and that there were only three cartels currently operating in Mexico. That, it seems, is news to the cartels. In fact, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a five-month downward trend in massacres in Mexico, June closed with 10 mass executions nationwide, making it the worst month of the year for attacks of this kind, according to government statistics. Massacres, defined by the government as shootings in which five or more people die during a single violent event, surged in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Eight years after 43 teaching students disappeared from the Ayotzinapa university campus in the Guerrero town of Iguala after being detained by police for rioting, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, May 24, that the U.S. government will be helping his administration to further investigate the still-unresolved case. Speaking during his daily
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