Six Mexican Women Murdered Per Day in March
This brings the rate of intentional homicides against women in Mexico to 621 incidents during the first quarter of 2024
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Read moreWhen a President Commends an Incitement to Violence
Veracruz Governor Cuitláhuac García’s rally against Mexico’s Supreme Court included distasteful displays against Supreme Court Chief Justice Norma Piña, actions later applauded by López Obrador
Read moreLópez Obrador Labels US State Department as ‘Liars’
The report levied allegations against Mexico of widespread torture, extrajudicial killings, human trafficking, gender violence femicide, forced disappearances and limits on freedom of expression across the country, trends that the U.S. Department of State claim are only exacerbated by the Mexican government’s impunity toward criminals and failure to properly investigate crimes
Read moreU.S. State Department Releases Report on Mexico’s Human Rights Issues
The enmeshment of the Mexican Armed Forces in Mexico’s daily violence was also highlighted by the State Department, especially considering the growing number of military human rights abuse reports across the last several years
Read moreMorelos State Attorney Accused of Covering up Femicide
By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Nov. 7, Mexican anti-corruption officials and Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum accused the Morelos Attorney General’s Office of covering up the murder of 27-year-old Ariadna López, whose lifeless body was found on a highway in Morelos last week. López reportedly disappeared from the Mexican capital’s trendy Condesa neighborhood on the evening of Oct. 30 after
Read moreCulpable Homicides against Women Back on the Rise in Mexico
By KELIN DILLON Culpable homicides against women have been rising in Mexico across the course of 2022’s summer, reaching new year-over-year levels of violence when compared to data from June, July and August of 2021. In Mexico, culpable homicide means that a death was caused by accident or without intent, and is differentiated from femicides and intentional homicides in that
Read moreUnder Sheinbaum, Homicides Surge in Mexico City
By KELIN DILLON While the national figures of Mexico’s enduring homicide problem have made headlines across the week of May 23, the spotlight has now been transfixed at the local level as new data reveals that the Mexico City government has broken homicide records underneath the administration of Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum. Though Sheinbaum has made a recent show of Mexico
Read moreApril Registers High Homicide Rate in Mexico
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
Read moreMissing Monterrey Teen Found Dead in Hotel Room
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The body of Debanhi Escobar, a teenage girl from the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León who went missing on April 8 after having been left on the side of the road by a taxi driver late at night, was found on Thursday, April 21, inside a cistern tank at a cheap hotel in
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