By KELIN DILLON Throughout 2020, reports and complaints surrounding human rights violations in Mexico (mainly against the illegal actions of government authorities) increased by 35.7 percent from the year previous, with a total of 252,066 complaints registered by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) on a state and national level. According to the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH)’s
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With more than 24,500 people reported missing during the first three years of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, and a total of more than 94,000 missing persons with no explanation as to their whereabouts, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) sent a select team of researchers on an official
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By KELIN DILLON If Mario Aburto, the confessed killer of Mexican politician Luis Donaldo Colosio, has further information about the 1994 incident’s true events, he will be offered protection, said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on the morning of Thursday, Oct. 28. “If Aburto and the family have something to say about his legal process that reveals another
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Sunday, Oct. 17, Nobel laureate and human rights activist Malala Yousafzai issued a personal letter through the international campaigning agency Avaaz to the world on the deteriorating situation of women and girls in her native Afghanistan since the takeover of that country by the Taliban last August. That letter, which was also signed by Afghan women’s
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In the southwest corner of Mexico’s northern state of Sonora, the remnants of one of the country’s oldest ethnic groups can still be found: the Yaqui people, who despite a tumultuous relationship with the government throughout modern Mexican history, have remained standing and constantly fighting for their land and basic human rights. The indigenous group,
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By KELIN DILLON On Friday, Aug. 13, Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ordered the reinstatement of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Stay in Mexico” policy, which requires those seeking asylum in the United States to wait in Mexico for their court hearings. The 2019 law was previously given a memorandum by National Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this past June, until Kacsmaryk
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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 KELIN DILLON U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is set to visit Mexico for the first time in her new role on Tuesday, June 8, with an aim to discuss hot button issues between the two countries like immigration policy and climate change. Ahead of Harris’s arrival, the National Palace, where Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) lives, was
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former career diplomat and senior adviser for the Project on Prosperity and Development, with JAMES SCHWEMLEIN and HANNAH DAVIN (The following article was written for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with express prior permission.) U.S. President Joe Biden and his team have said that
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By KELIN DILLON In the two years of the current presidential administration, Mexico’s government only gave out scholarships to 10 percent of its disabled population, while cutting millions of pesos in funding from the organization that defends their human rights, leaving the country’s disabled community hung out to dry amid the devastating covid-19 pandemic. According to the National Institute of
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