At 247,455 square kilometers, Chihuahua is the largest state in Mexico and one of the most prosperous in the country, rated “high” on the United Nations Human Development Index. Unfortunately, it is now also one of the bloodiest
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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 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 RICARDO CASTILLO The first complete draft for a viable law that allows for military participation in civilian policing activities was unanimously approved by the Mexican Senate last week. That step, however, is only the first move for the bill. Originally, the lower house Chamber of Deputies had sent a draft that had been sent to them by President Andrés
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A drug gang faceoff at the Los Tres Portones ranch on the outskirts of the northern Mexican city of Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas, resulted in the deaths of at least 20 people – 17 charged beyond recognition – and six burned vehicles, according to local security forces, who discovered the crime scene on Wednesday, Jan.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Police in Mexico’s northwestern state of Baja California on Friday, Oct. 12, reported the apparent murder of a Roman Catholic priest in the border town of Playas de Rosarito, just outside Tijuana. The alleged homicide of Ícmar Arturo Orta was reported to authorities on Sunday, Oct. 14, by Tijuana Archbishop Francisco Moreno Barron. Orta
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