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 Mexico City-based criminal organizations Tepito Union and the Tláhuac Cartel currently control the trafficking of persons for sexual purposes and prostitution on the streets of the country’s capital, revealed a joint report by Mexico’s Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) and the Attorney General’s Office (FGR). These groups have allegedly managed to venture into the trafficking of women
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By MARK LORENZANA The plenary session of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, Oct. 12, approved the reform — jointly initiated by legislators of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) — to extend the Armed Forces on the streets until 2028 for public-security tasks. There were 339 votes in favor of the
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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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By KELIN DILLON Just days after Protestant Christian leader and president of the National Confraternity of Christian and Evangelical Churches (Confraternice) Arturo Farela Gutiérrez spoke out in defense of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “hugs, not bullets” policy for addressing violence and publicly criticized the Catholic Church as “setting the country on fire,” members of the Mexican Catholic
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By KELIN DILLON After repeated tension between the Catholic Church and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) throughout the latter’s presidency, the president of the National Confraternity of Christian and Evangelical Churches (Confraternice), Arturo Farela Gutiérrez. has spoken out against the Church’s repeated distancing from López Obrador, claiming that it’s looking to “set the country on fire” through the
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON Despite claims that the Mexican government has taken steps to combat the nation’s enduring femicide crisis, violence against women in the country has not gotten better across the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Instead, it has become increasingly worse. As reports of intentional homicides against women continue across Mexico, including a 900
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report released by the Small Arms Survey, an organization based out of Geneva with a specialization in tracking violent deaths around the world, Mexico is the only nation in Latin America that’s regressed in its pursuit of peacefulness, growing from 10.7 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004 to more than triple that –
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By KELIN DILLON Just three and a half years into his six-year term, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his administration are on track to have the most violent presidency in Mexico’s recent history, already surpassing that of former President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa as of May’s homicide figures, and he is anticipated to surpass that of his immediate
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The U.S. State Department on Wednesday, June 15, issued an amended travel advisory for Mexico, warning against traveling to the country because of a high risk of crime and covid-19 infection. The new advisory, at Level 3 (the second-highest level on the State Department’s scale), warns U.S. citizens to “reconsider travel to Mexico.” because of safety and
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