By KELIN DILLON After controversy arose surrounding Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) candidate for governor of Nuevo León, Adrián de la Garza, allegedly offering cash cards to women in an attempt to buy their votes in the country’s upcoming June elections, reports have revealed that most, if not all, of Mexico’s political parties commonly engage in this practice. The use
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican boxer Saul “Canelo” Álvarez’s eighth round knockout of British Billy Joe Saunders, who was previously undefeated, late Saturday, May 8, gave the Guadalajara native a title never achieved before by a Mexican fighter: total champion of an entire weight class. Boxing is a notoriously difficult sport to become absolute champion of due to the multitude of
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Union of Air Traffic Controllers (Sinacta) publicly denounced its perceived persecution by the nation’s government-run Air Navigation Services in Mexican Air Space (Seneam), following Sinacta’s reports of two planes nearly colliding after the allegedly negligent redesign of Mexico City’s airspace. Sinacta also reported another incident where two planes came close to collision in Guadalajara’s eastern
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By KELIN DILLON Reports coming from the Mexican state of Jalisco say that infamous drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho,” has built his own hospital in the region in an unusual gesture of goodwill for the increasingly violent crime boss, and also in an apparent attempt to help combat the kidney disease he apparently suffers from.
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XINHUA The soccer match between Mexican giants Guadalajara and Ámerica later this month will be played with the presence of fans, a year after most sports venues in Mexico were shut to the public because of the covid-19 pandemic. The Liga MX announced Friday, March 5, that the state government of Jalisco had given permission for Guadalajara to partially open
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Vote Postponed The Mexican Chamber of Deputies postponed the vote on the outsourcing regulation bill, which was slated to take place on Thursday, Nov. 26. Now, the debate over it will continue until sometime next week. The decision came after there was an exponential increase of speakers taking the podium from 70, on Monday, Nov. 23,
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A tanker truck transporting liquefied gas exploded in the west Mexican state of Nayarit in the early morning on Monday, Nov. 16, killing at least 13 people, local officials said. According to a report from the Nayarit Attorney General’s Office, the double-tanker truck crashed and exploded along the highway linking the state capital Tepic with Guadalajara, in the western state
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Missing Mexican Instagram model Adriana Murrieta Trevino, who was found in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on Monday, Nov. 2, apparently died of strangulation, police reported over the weekend. Murrieta Trevino, 29, was first reported missing by her family on Sunday, Nov. 2, after flying into Guadalajara, Jalisco, from the city of Culiacan, Sinaloa. She was a
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By KYLIE MADRY Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has long been disliked by members of the opposition parties, who formed the country’s ruling class until AMLO and his National Regeneration Movement (Morena) took power. That distaste is turning into open revolt, as the president faces threats from the rightwing National Anti-AMLO Front (Frena), the newly formed Sí por
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By RICARDO CASTILLO In 10 separate gatherings of the so-called Federalist Alliance, the governors of as many Mexican states held meetings to demand that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) not drastically cut their income in the 2021 national budget. They also protested against the recent elimination of 109 federally funded trusts that sprinkled money into their states. In tandem,
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