By RICH GRANT The famous Moulin Rouge of Paris became an inspiration for an Academy Award-winning film and Broadway musical, which is currently appearing in Denver, Colorado, through June 26. So it is no small irony that in 1889, the same year the real Moulin Rouge opened on the edge of the red light district of Pigalle in Paris, way
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. State Department released its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) on Tuesday, March 1, noting that “organized crime groups continue to have influence over high-ranking officials within the Mexican government in an environment where corruption persists.” In the report, the INCSR said that this persistent ubiquity of corruption “hinders the fight
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OPINION By THE WILSON CENTER MEXICO INSTITUTE Given the current political and social panorama in Mexico, there will be three major things to watch for in the months ahead regarding U.S.-Mexico relations: Migration As border apprehensions of undocumented migrants reach record levels, the Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administrations strive to collaborate to reduce the flow and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The bodies of 10 murdered people were found in front of Zacatecas Governor David Monreal’s office on Thursday, Jan. 6. The bodies of eight men and two women were found stuffed inside a flatbed pickup truck left before dawn near a Christmas tree in the main plaza of the state capital. On Friday, Jan.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), which provides medical coverage for more than 38 percent of the nation’s population, reported Friday, Dec. 17, that is was unable to purchase at least 91 percent of the medications it will need in 2022. The IMSS had held a public tender to obtain the medications because allegedly
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Bulgarian customs officers at Sofia Airport ¿seized 450 liters of liquid methamphetamine entering form Mexico, that National Customs Agency (NCA) said in a statement on Wednesday, Nov. 3. The illicit drugs were found in 450 bottles placed in 30 cardboard boxes that arrived in Bulgaria on Thursday, Oct. 28 as a cargo shipment from Mexico, the NCA said. The recipient
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON Three years after Mexico dismantled its system for the acquisition and distribution of medicines, the country has failed to replace it, resulting in the government only buying 29.3 percent of the 1.5 billion scheduled medicines for 2021, and having only distributed 6.8 percent of what it planned to for the year. According to figures from the Secretariat
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report published by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, Mexico is the fourth-most crime-ridden country in the world for illicit trades like drug and weapon trafficking, and takes the position of possessing the most intricate human trafficking network throughout North and South America. In its overall ranking, the Global Organized Crime Index
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By KELIN DILLON After much controversy over the subject, Mexico’s Secretary of Health Jorge Alcocer, former Secretary of the Treasury Arturo Herrera, and head of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) Thalía Lagunas are facing criminal complaints of contempt with the country’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) over their role in failing to deliver life-saving drugs to
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