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Michoacán’s Pueblos Unidos: Empowered Farmers or Vigilante Terrorists?

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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — During the last two weeks, the country has faced a serious security crisis, after several violent incidents took place across cities located in the states of Baja California, Chihuahua and Guanajuato, where different organized crime groups directly attacked civilians and set fires to dozens of businesses and private vehicles. The aforementioned resulted, in the first

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Guanajuato Town to Host Mestizo Food Festival

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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The town of San José Iturbe, located in the northern part of Mexico’s central state of Guanajuato, is slated to host the fourth edition of a mestizo food festival on Saturday, Aug. 20, and Sunday, Aug. 21. The festival will include a combination of pre-Columbian and Spanish colonial dishes, with indigenous chefs from Mexico’s Chichimeca and Otomí

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AMLO Downplays Cartel Violence, Killings as ‘Political Propaganda’

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By MARK LORENZANA For Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the recent acts of violence in the Mexican states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Guanajuato and Jalisco that left hundreds of people dead and property destroyed is but “an act of propaganda by criminal groups that my political opponents are taking advantage of.” In his daily morning press conference on

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San Miguel de Allende Arts Fest Opens with Street Carnival

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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The first-ever edition of the San Miguel de Allende Arts Festival (FASMA) opened with a spectacular citywide street carnival on Friday, Aug. 12. The 10-day festival in the Mexican state of Guanajuato located just 274 kilometers from Mexico City, is intended to showcase the San Miguel’s premiere artists and cultural performers for both national and international visitors.

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Mexican Authorities Fail to Arrest CJNG Leaders

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By MARK LORENZANA The violence that erupted in the western Mexican states of Guanajuato and Jalisco on the night of Tuesday, Aug. 9, was reportedly the result of retaliatory actions by members of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), in response to the alleged arrest of Ricardo Ruiz, alias “Double R,” and Gerardo González, alias “El Apá,” leaders of the

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All Hell Breaks Loose in Jalisco, Guanajuato following Cartel Arrests

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PULSE NEWS MEXICO A series of arrests of alleged drug cartel kingpins in the western Mexican states of Guanajuato and Jalisco set off a terrifying night of mayhem and destruction late Tuesday, Aug. 9. As residents ran for cover and sheltered in place, angry gangbangers set businesses and vehicles on fire in both states as an apparent act of retaliation.

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Another Mexican Journalist Killed, This Time in Guanajuato

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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Yet another Mexican journalist was gunned down on Tuesday, Aug. 2, becoming the 13th reporter killed in the country this year. Ernesto Méndez, editorial director of the Tu Voz media outlet and reporter for Zona Franca and Correo newspapers, was murdered inside a bar in Guanajuato’s Colonia Cerro Prieto. He was the 13th journalist killed in Mexico,

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At Least Three Injured in Playa del Carmen Shooting

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By MARK LORENZANA A shootout on Saturday, July 23, in the Mexican resort town of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, has left at least three people injured, according to local reports. Surveillance cameras at a hotel captured the moment of the shooting, which caused tourists traversing Fifth Avenue — a popular street in Playa del Carmen filled with souvenir shops, restaurants

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