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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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Residents of Mexico City were jolted from their beds on the morning of Sunday, Dec. 11, by seismic alarms followed by a 6-magnitude quake, according to the National Seismological Service (SSN). The quake, which hit at 8:31 a.m. Mexico City time, had its epicenter in Tecpan, in the southern state of Guerrero, the SSN reported. Many people
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Italy will be the guest country of honor at the 11th Sabor es Morelos (Flavor is Morelos) international food festival, slated to take place in Cuernavaca on Saturday, Dec. 3, and Sunday, Dec. 4. “There will be more than 50 restaurants participating in the festival this year,” explained Morelos Tourism Secretary Julieta Godzweig Conejo during a press
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By MARK LORENZANA The Autopista del Sol, which connects Mexico City with Acapulco, the city and major seaport in the southwestern Mexican coastal state of Guerrero, has become a danger for motorists traveling along the busy highway due to constant assaults and robbery. On Saturday, Nov. 5, travelers were robbed by armed men on the Autopista del Sol, on the stretch between Acapulco
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Day of the Dead in Ayotzinapa
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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 MARK LORENZANA Despite the tortilla being one of the 24 products of Mexico’s basic basket included in the Package Against Inflation and Famine (PACIC), its price has increased from May to September of this year. On April 4, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced to the public a new price-control initiative — the PACIC – that established cost protection
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By MARK LORENZANA The criminal group Los Tequileros claimed responsibility for the attacks on the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 5, in the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero’s municipality of San Miguel Totolapan, where its mayor — Conrado Mendoza of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) — and at least 17 other people were killed. Through a video shared on social
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Conrado Mendoza Almeda, the mayor of San Miguel Totolapan in Mexico’s coastal state of Guerrero, and 17 other people were killed late Wednesday, Oct. 5, in an armed attack on the town’s municipal palace. The town is located in the state’s extremely violent Tierra Caliente region, currently under a turf war between opposing drug cartel groups. Also
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By KELIN DILLON Following the intentional leak of millions of emails from the Mexican Secretariat of Defense (Sedena) by hacktivist group Guacamaya, further investigation into the shared correspondence has revealed links between Mexican organized crime groups and former elements of the Russian special forces. According to emails sent “to the attention” of a certain General Efraín between May 2 and
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