By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With more than 24,500 people reported missing during the first three years of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, and a total of more than 94,000 missing persons with no explanation as to their whereabouts, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) sent a select team of researchers on an official
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The renowned Italian dance group No Gravity is slated to headline the 49th edition of Mexico’s International Cervantino Festival (FIC) in Guanajuato in October. The group will perform a multidisciplinary live and virtual presentation based on Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, with a mind-boggling display of synchronized, gravity-defying ballet. Inferno is part of the troupe’s three-part opus of Dante’s
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Happy Mexican Independence Bicentennial Anniversary! Sure, most Mexicans still consider Sept. 16, 1810, as the nation’s Independence Day, but in point of fact, the country really gained its sovereignty more than 11 years later. And so, Monday, Sept. 27, is the day that Mexico as an independent nation actually turns 200. For all practical and festooning purposes,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, Sept. 20, that he “lamented” the deaths of two men outside a restaurant located in Salamanca, Guanajuato, on Sunday, Sept. 19. The men were killed by a bomb that exploded at 7:14 p.m. from inside a package that was delivered to the family-run Barra 6104 restaurant
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS During the 300 years of Spanish rule following Hernán Cortés’ conquest of Tenochtitlán in 1521, the people of Mexico suffered the indignities of imported smallpox epidemics, forced labor and imposed religious conversions. The disenfranchised indigenous Mexica, Maya, Zapotec and Toltec civilizations were stripped of their heritage and land, and what properties were not claimed by the viceroys
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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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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a five-month downward trend in massacres in Mexico, June closed with 10 mass executions nationwide, making it the worst month of the year for attacks of this kind, according to government statistics. Massacres, defined by the government as shootings in which five or more people die during a single violent event, surged in
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By KELIN DILLON Power vacuums across Mexican states created by June 6’s midterm elections have caused a dramatic spike in lethal violence throughout the country, with over 57 dead in the past few weeks throughout the course of five massacres. Six people died during a riot in a prison in Villahermosa, Tabasco, followed by seven shot dead by gunmen in
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By KELIN DILLON With Mexico’s rainy season undoubtedly having arrived, massive rain storms are expected to continue throughout the country, even causing Mexico City to issue an alert to its inhabitants about the storms. Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) released a statement revealing low pressure in both the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico that has a 20 percent chance of
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By KELIN DILLON Following U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to Mexico, where she tackled issues like labor reform, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh launched a second complaint against Mexico for its alleged violation of workers’ rights under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The officials allege Mexico has denied collective bargaining and free
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