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Canadian Tourists Shot Dead in Playa del Carmen

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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US Confirms Mexico Has Granted Visas to DEA Agents

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what appears to be the fruit of some of the closed-door negotiations that took place between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his U.S. counterpart, President Joe Biden, during their face-to-face meeting in Washington on Nov. 18, the United States revealed on Wednesday, Dec. 1, that Mexico has unblocked the issuing

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US Consulate Issues Matamoros Advisory Following Shootout

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. Consulate General in Matamoros issued a security alert for all Americans on Saturday, Oct. 23, recommending they avoid travel to and within that Tamaulipas city because of the bloody shootout between police and suspected drug cartel operatives that occurred there on Friday, Oct. 22. The Consulate also extended the travel alert to

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New Zacatecas Governor Starts Term with 220 Murders

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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Organized Crime in Michoacán Leads to Mass Exodus

By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — For decades, Mexico’s northern border has been a magnet for immigrants, both national and international, seeking economic refuge in the United States. But in recent months, the U.S.-Mexico border has also become a destination for thousands of displaced Mexicans who have fled their homes trying to escape the growing violence generated by organized crime

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Doubling Down on the Lethal Flow of Fentanyl

By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE and DAVID M. LUNA     (The following article first appeared in “The National Interest” and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) As the United States debates “emergencies” at its southern border and negotiates a trade deal with China, U.S. leaders must confront the lethal trade in fentanyl from other North American countries

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