By MARK LORENZANA Mexican journalist Jorge Luis Chew Cervantes posted on his official Facebook account that he is safe and sound, after being reported missing since Friday, Sept. 30, in the municipality of Taxco de Alarcón, in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. “Given the news of my disappearance, I want to inform my friends and followers who are worried about me
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The lifeless body of Sinaloa broadcast commentator Cándida Cristal Vázquez, 34, was found on Saturday, Aug. 27, in that Mexican state’s coast resort of Mazatlán in a ditch on the outskirts of town. According to police reports, Vázquez’s body showed signs of torture and violence. She was the 16th journalist killed in Mexico so far this year,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In an op-ed piece published in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday, Dec. 4, the Americas director of the New York-based nonprofit Human Rights Watch (HRW), José Miguel Vivanco, warned the United States to not be complacent about the mounting violations of basic human rights being compiled by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Mexico’s Naval (Semar) Secretary José Rafael Ojeda Durán on Friday, July 16, for stating that he considers the country’s judiciary branch as an “enemy” because it includes judges who prevent arrests. “This is a clear symbol of the militarization of Mexico and the degradation of the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite protests from legalists, constitutionalists and lawmakers alike — including from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) own leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party — the president’s “initiative” to extend the four-year term of Supreme Court Chief Justice Zalvídar easily passed the Mexican Congress on Friday, April 23. The controversial bill, which extends Zaldívar’s stint another two
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By MAMMAD TALIBOV, Azerbaijani ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Kazakhstani Ambassador to Mexico Andrian Yelemessov has no great love for Human Right Watch (HRW), the New York-based NGO that has been defending refugees, migrants and political prisoners since 1978. “For me, that organization is bad,” Yelemessov told Pulse News Mexico during a press conference at his embassy on Wednesday, Feb. 20, to tout his government’s economic
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