By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just four days after the body of Sinaloa website news reporter Luis Enrique Ramírez Ramos was discovered on a dirt road in Culiacán, two more Mexican journalists were killed on Monday, May 9, in the coastal town of Cosoleacaque, Veracruz. Reporters Yesenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera, both from the news portal
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Two more Mexican journalists covering the country’s drug cartels and political corruption — photojournalist Margarito Martínez Esquivel and reporter José Luis Gamboa — were killed in the space of just one week for doing their jobs, adding to a total of at least 145 murdered reporters in the country in the last two decades
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just 24 hours after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) decried a report in Reforma noting that 56 human rights activists had been killed so far during his presidency as “false” and “a political conspiracy aimed at discrediting his administration,” the government’s own Secretariat of the Interior (Gobernación, or Segob) pointed out that the newspaper’s figures
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Two U.S. pundits point out that their country owes Afghans more than a quick goodbye
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and former U.S. deputy ambassador to Afghanistan
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and former U.S. deputy ambassador to Afghanistan
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Two former U.S. ambassadors speak out
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By DANIEL F. RUNDE and EARL ANTHONY WAYNE (The following is an abbreviated version of a brief written for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. It is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) THE ISSUE A precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan would endanger many of the social, political, economic and health gains that
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