Report Says Organized Crime Occupies 81 Percent of Mexico
AC Consultores also said Mexico City has the highest concentration of organized crime cells in Mexico with an alleged 30 groups operating in the capital
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Navigating Mexico: Mexicana Makes a Comeback
Notably, the current list of destinations does not cover any international flights
Read moreArmy Supporters March in Defense of Tamaulipas Soldiers
Shortly after the deaths of the youths in Tamaulipas, the country’s National Human Rights Commission announced that it will investigate the case
Read moreDutch Company to Invest $1.5 Billion in Durango Fertilizer Plant
Once in operation, the plant will provide at least 500 jobs for skilled Mexican workers
Read moreThe Forgotten Thread of Huichol Yarn Art
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Most people familiar with Mexico know about Huichol art, the vividly colored, sometimes-hypnotic, psychedelia-style creations of the indigenous people of the central states of Jalisco, Durango, Zacatecas and Nayarit, known in their own language as the Wixáritari. Who has not been dumbstruck by the intricate, spiritually significant and brilliantly hued beaded folk art that now adorns museums
Read moreMorena Two-Day Regional Elections Erupt in Chaos, Violence
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Despite initial claims by National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party leader Mario Delgado to the contrary, the first national internal elections of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s leftist party on Saturday, July 30, and Sunday, July 31, were marred by claims of ballot stuffing, ballot box burnings and outright acts of violence, with videos of numerous of
Read moreDeutsche Welle: Morena Made ‘Electoral Narco-Pact’ with Cartel
By MARK LORENZANA Anabel Hernández, a Mexican investigative journalist with Germany’s esteemed state-run news agency Deutsche Welle, said in her weekly column on Friday, June 3, that officials from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) had made an “electoral narco-pact” with members of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel leading up to the June 5 gubernatorial elections.
Read morePRI, PRD to Lose Party Registration in Some States
By MARK LORENZANA As a result of their poor turnout in Mexico’s gubernatorial elections on Sunday, June 5, in which candidates of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) failed to reach the mandatory 3 percent of the vote in several constituencies, both parties will lose their registration as local parties in those areas,
Read moreMexico’s Electoral Weekend Ends with Controversy
By KELIN DILLON Following Mexico’s Sunday, June 5, elections, held throughout the states of Aguascalientes, Durango, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, and Tamaulipas, there have been at least 59 complaints filed with the Electoral Crimes Prosecutor’s Office (Fisel) throughout the entire electoral process and a pending judicial appeal surrounding the results in Tamaulipas, showing Mexico’s well-documented electoral issues still persist. The
Read moreINE Announces Preliminary Gubernatorial Election Results
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) late Sunday, June 6, issued the preliminary results of the “rapid count” of exit polls in the elections of the states of Aguascalientes, Durango, Hidalgo, Tamaulipas, Oaxaca and Quintana Roo, with little in the way of surprises. According to those results, the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, which was founded by
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