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Mexico News Roundup

By RICARDO CASTILLO    Mexican Constitution Day Though officially sessions for both houses of the Mexican Congress kicked off on Saturday, Feb. 1, the first gathering to discuss legal issues will be on Mexico’s Constitution Day, Feb. 5. By now, 14 months after he was sworn in, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has most of his campaign legislative agenda laid

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2018 Was Mexico’s Most Violent Year

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF     In 2018, there were 33,341 homicides in Mexico, up more than 15 percent from 2017, when 28,866 murders were registered, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Safety Protection System (SESNSP). That makes 2018 the year with the highest number of murders since the government first began taking an annual registry in

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