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The View from the North: Ill Tidings South of the Border
OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Down Mexico way, a recent Reforma newspaper story is causing a lot of commotion and major concern. The original story was published in Spanish, but Pulse News Mexico published an analysis in English. It’s bad news, to say the least. As Pulse News Mexico’s Mark Lorenzana wrote: “The U.S. government has evidence that allegedly links members
Read moreUS Evidence Ties Mexican Military, Police to Guerreros Unidos Cartel
By MARK LORENZANA The U.S. government has evidence that allegedly links members of the drug-running criminal group Guerreros Unidos to the Mexican Army, Navy and municipal police of Iguala and Cocula, in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. In a report by Mexican daily newspaper Reforma on Tuesday, Sept. 27, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR) presented to
Read moreThe Little Town that Could, and Did, and Then Didn’t, and Now Wants to Again
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a tourist destination, Iguala, the little town in the northeastern corner of the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero, gets a bad rap. Irreparably linked to the 2014 disappearance of 43 rural teachers’ college students who were allegedly disappeared by government forces in the nearby town of Ayotzinapa after they had commandeered a bus to travel
Read moreIsraeli Embassy in Mexico Vandalized by Ayotzinapa Protesters
PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Israeli Embassy in Mexico was vandalized late Wednesday, Sept. 21, during what started off as a peaceful protest by family members and supporters of 43 missing Ayotzinapa rural teacher’s college students who disappeared in the coastal state of Guerrero in 2014. The protest was organized just days before the eighth anniversary of the students’ disappearance and
Read moreFifteenth Journalist Killed This Year in Mexico
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Reporter and columnist Fredid Román Román was gunned down as he left his home in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, on Monday, Aug. 23, making him the 15th journalist to be killed in Mexico this year. Román Román was a reporter for various media outlets in the coastal Mexican state of Guerrero, as well as the owner and editor of
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Digging up Mexico’s Uncomfortable Past History
Read moreFormer Mexican AG Arrested for 2014 Student Disappearances
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Former Mexican Federal Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam was arrested on Friday, Aug. 19, and subsequently interned in the North Prison for his alleged involvement in the Ayotzinapa case, the as-yet unsolved disappearance of 43 education school students in Iguala, Guerrero, in September 2014. Murillo Karam arrived Saturday, Aug. 20, at the North Prison in a government
Read moreRosario Robles Walks out of Prison after Three Years without Trial
PULSE NEWS MEXICO After more than three years of her detainment without bail — and just hours after the arrest of former Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam for his alleged ordering of the disappearances of 43 Ayotzinapa education school students in 2014 — Mexico’s Federal Attorney General Office¿ (FGR) late Friday, Aug. 19, ordered the immediate release of former Secretary
Read moreGuerrero Governor Redesigns Mexican Flag to Honor Herself
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF No stranger to controversy, Guerrero Governor Evelyn Salgado Pineda courted nationwide condemnation on Monday, Nov. 29, when she offered a press conference in the city of Iguala, seated in front of a modified Mexican flag with a giant, green snake in the form of an “S,” apparently referring to her surname. Technically, it is
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