By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Guerrero State Attorney General’s Office (FGEG) on Saturday, Oct. 2, reported that the cause of Acapulco’s iconic Baby’O nightclub fire was due to arson. After reviewing a video recording showing unidentified men pouring what appeared to be gasoline on the premises and then lighting the area that was delivered to the Public Ministry
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By KELIN DILLON The newly sworn-in governors of Mexican states Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Sonora, Campeche, Nayarit and San Luis Potosí have raised concerns about the precarious financial situations of the states they inherited, noting the lack of funds present to pay payroll, pensions and providers. The National Action Party’s (PAN) Governor of Chihuahua María Eugenia Campos made note of a 11
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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 Mexico’s Interior Secretariat’s Deputy Attorney for Human Rights Alejandro Encinas said Friday, Sept. 24, that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had sent a letter to newly instated Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett formally requesting the extradition of the former head of Mexico’s Criminal Investigation Agency, Tomás Zerón de Lucio. At a press conference,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The archeological remains of a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath site, were discovered this week in Juliantla, Guerrero, by Mexican archeologist Diego Martínez Serrano, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) reported Wednesday, Sept. 22. The remains of the 16th century bath site, deemed in good condition, were discovered at Juliantla, a town
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked the coastal state of Guerrero and Mexico City late Tuesday, Sept. 7, leaving at least one dead in Acapulco and many frayed nerves in the nation’s capital. There were reported electricity outages across the capital and evacuations for apartment buildings. Although no serious injuries or structural damages were
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 30, more than 25 million Mexican students and 2 million teachers finally returned to in-person classes after more than 17 months away from educational centers due to the effects of the covid-19 pandemic — though not without widespread uncertainty and controversy around the move. First, the National Union of Parents (UNFP) noted a distinct
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Former Guerrero Governor René Juárez Cisneros, who also served as coordinator of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) bench in the Chamber of Deputies, died Sunday, July 25, at the age of 65, according to local authorities. Although the Guerrero government did not report the cause of death, Juárez Cisneros had tested positive for
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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 According to the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH), in 2020 and during the first five months of 2021, at least 13,246 people have been displaced due to violence in their communities. Forced internal displacement is a violation of human rights that occurs when people are forced to flee
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