XINHUA At least 10 “heavily” armed gunmen were shot dead and seven other people were wounded on Tuesday, June 14, in a shootout with Mexican police in the Texcaltitlán municipality, in the central State of Mexico (Edoméx), officials said. The gunfight began when agents from the local prosecutor’s office attempted to carry out an arrest warrant and were met with
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO After an increased Day-without-a-Car program on Wednesday, June 8, limiting the circulation of vehicles in Mexico City and the Valley of Mexico , which included some privately owned cars with 0 or 00 inspection tags, Mexico’s Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis (Came) announced late in the afternoon that it would suspend Phase 1 of the Environmental Contingency,
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Due to high ozone levels throughout Mexico City and the State of Mexico (EdoMéx), the Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis (Came) announced late Tuesday, June 7, that Phase 1 of the environmental contingency plan would be implemented for all vehicles with license plates ending in the numbers 3 and 4 for Wednesday, June 8. High temperatures, reaching
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO These days, the political gossip churners in Mexico have a new favorite target: Federal Deputy Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, alias “Alito” (short for Alejandro), who is the both the current president of the once-mighty Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, which ruled the country without interruptions from 1929 to 2000), and the leader of the remaining 70 PRI deputies in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Although the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to claim that his government has reduced the trend of intentional homicides nationwide, in just three days this week, a new murder was reported every 15 minutes. On Tuesday, May 24, Mexico registered the second-highest record of homicides in the president’s entire
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By KELIN DILLON According to new data from Mexico’s Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, April was Mexico’s second-highest month in 2022 in terms of rate of intentional homicides, an issue exacerbated in the country’s ongoing feminicide crisis, though the homicide rate has declined overall over the past several years. On the morning of Monday, May 3, the Secretary of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS >Despite having failed admission exams, a recent internal air audit detected that more than a quarter of all air traffic controllers in Mexico have been working since 2019 in the Services to Navigation in the Mexican Air Space (Seneam). In an audit carried out in 2021 of the applicant selection process, Seneam’s Internal Control Office (OIC) found,
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By KELIN DILLON According to the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons, more than 100,000 persons have been reported missing and left unfound since the organization started keeping records in the 1960s, with most of the disappearances concentrated in states known for a strong presence of organized crime, like Jalisco, Tamaulipas and Veracruz, as well as highly-populated regions like
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Although high temperatures and stagnant air are expected to continue to create high ozone levels in Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx), the Megalopolis Environmental Commission (Came) announced late Wednesday, May 4, that Phase I of the ozone contingency plan would be suspended for Thursday, May 5. As of 10 p.m. Wednesday,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Running water service in parts of both Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx) will be suspended from the morning of Wednesday, April 27, through the afternoon of Friday, April 29, in order to conduct repairs along the Tláhuac branch of municipal aquaduct, Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) announced Monday, April 25. In
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