By KELIN DILLON According to a new report from U.S. intelligence, Mexican cartels have begun sponsoring chemistry degrees for some of their members in an effort to expand fentanyl production, attempting to keep up with the high demand for the drug – which has now supposedly passed both heroin and cocaine in recreational use. The intel likewise revealed that these
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By MARK LORENZANA Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday, Sept. 21, issued an executive order designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. He likewise instructed the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to “take immediate action” to “keep Texans safe amid the growing national fentanyl crisis.” At the roundtable discussion and news conference, Abbott likewise sent a letter to U.S.
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OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Down in Mexico, the word is “homicides.” Unfortunately, there are too many of them. This is from Alfredo Corchado of the Dallas Morning News: “As of Thursday, Aug. 18, 128,923 homicides had been registered under (President Andrés Manuel) López Obrador (AMLO), with more than two years left in his term, which ends in December 2024. This
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) has requested 13.9 billion pesos in a bid to upgrade its military service vehicles. According to Sedena, in recent years it has faced problems mobilizing military personnel on a national scale because of obsolete vehicles. In April of this year, the General Directorate of Military Transportation requested tax authorities to approve
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, June 15, the U.S. Attorney General’s Office filed an in limine motion against former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro García Luna, alleging the controversial Mexican official had attempted to silence journalists investigating his purported corruption and involvement in illicit cocaine trafficking, charges he was later arrested on in the United States. The U.S. Attorney
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By MARK LORENZANA A group of hooded and masked men in bulletproof vests and armed with high-caliber firearms were caught on camera by terrified residents on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 14, in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a town located in the central highlands region of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The group, whose members call themselves “Los
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In the three years since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took office with his so-called Fourth Transformation (4T) reform, drug trafficking has risen by more than 40 percent, according to the government’s own statistics. During 2018, the last year of the government of former President Enrique Peña Nieto, 58,588 police files were
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF During the early hours of Tuesday, March 15, the alleged leader of Mexico’s Northwest Cartel, Juan Gerardo Trevino, alias “El Huevo,” was handed over to U.S. authorities at the Tijuana International Airport, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) reported. Without leaving the airport facilities, El Huevo was handed over to U.S. agents via the binational
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. government announced Wednesday, Dec. 15, that it will pay up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of any of the four sons of renowned Sinaloa drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. The announcement was made through the U.S. State Department and specified the names of the four sons,: Ovidio
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