According to a report from Mexico’s Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), which was updated this month, there are a total of 128,233 GN agents throughout the country
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Figures indicate that an average of 86 people are violently murdered each day in Mexico in 2022. Almost all the causes have a common denominator, and that is the drug violence that prevails throughout the country. Massacres, forced disappearances and shootings are the daily bread in states like Jalisco, Tamaulipas, Guanajuato, Zacatecas and Michoacán. In
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán —The constant climate of extreme violence in which Mexico has lived since the start of the so-called drug war in 2006 has left a huge red stain in the modern history of the country. From 2006 to 2021 alone, it is estimated that 350,000 people were killed in the country because of drug wars and power
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Cirko de Mente, Mexico’s answer to Cirque du Soleil, will offer free performances at the Unidad Habitacional Fuentes Brotantes, located in Mexico City’s southern Tlapan neighborhood, every Friday, Saturday and Sunday of November. The group, which had its debut during the October International Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato, is aimed at promoting, disseminating and vindicating the circus arts
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By KELIN DILLON According to new data released by Mexico’s National System of Public Security (SNSP), there were a total of 627 children murdered by gun violence in Mexico between January and September 2022, an average of two minor deaths per day and an approximately 7 percent higher homicide rate than experienced during the same time period the year previous.
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By KELIN DILLON Only weeks after hactivist group Guacamaya revealed to the public that 72 percent of Mexico is under control of organized crime groups, Mexico experienced its most violent month of the year yet, registering 2,481 intentional homicides throughout Oct. 2022. A total of 92 intentional murders were committed on Monday, Oct. 31 alone, says information publicized by Mexico’s
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By KELIN DILLON After selling off a number of luxury vehicles seized from the hacker organization the Bandidos Revolutions Team in 2019, Mexico’s National Institute to Return the Stolen to the People (Indep) is now facing lawsuits for auctioning off the cars – most of which were made by high-end manufacturers such as Ferrari, McLaren, Lamborghini and Mercedes-Benz – without
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By MARK LORENZANA With only a month to go until the 2022 FIFA World Cup opens in November, hundreds of Mexican soccer fans are looking for a way to fulfill their dream of watching the Mexican National Soccer Team in a packed stadium in Qatar and, perhaps, enjoy some sightseeing on the side. Some unscrupulous and shady characters, however, haven
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By MARK LORENZANA The State of Mexico (EdoMéx), Baja California, Veracruz, Puebla and Querétaro are the Mexican states that lead the 2022 Impunity Index in Mexico, which was prepared by the Center for Studies on Impunity and Justice (CESIJ), the University of the Americas Puebla and the International Academic Council. The five aforementioned states are followed by Jalisco, Sinaloa, Aguascalientes, Chiapas and
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico City’s Orquesta Típica, an orchestra composed of traditional instruments and musicians, will represent the capital at Mexico’s 50th edition of the International Cervantino Festival (FIC) in Guanajuato, city officials announced Wednesday, Oct. 5. The orchestra, which has been performing for more than 138 years, will present a Musical Heritage of Mexico concert on Wednesday, Oct. 26
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