PULSE NEWS MEXICO Yet another Mexican state, Colima, in the central western part of the country, fell under a barrage of violence and vehicle burnings late Thursday, Aug. 18, following the arrest in Mexico City of José “La Vaca” Bernabé Brizuela, the alleged head of the Los Mezcales criminal group. According to police reports, vehicles were burned in both the municipalities
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By KELIN DILLON On Thursday, Aug. 18, the daily American newspaper Dallas Morning News released an in-depth editorial critiquing the controversial “hugs, not bullets” policy against violence that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has adopted throughout his administration. AMLO’s approach toward Mexico’s enduring violence crisis was only further thrust into the spotlight on Thursday, Aug. 11, when a
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico City police seized around 1.8 tons of cocaine on Tuesday, July 26, in what was considered to be the biggest drug bust in the Mexican capital so far. Authorities estimated that the seized cocaine, which was being smuggled in two freight trucks, has a street value of 400 million pesos, and could even reach twice that
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By MARK LORENZANA A shootout on Saturday, July 23, in the Mexican resort town of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, has left at least three people injured, according to local reports. Surveillance cameras at a hotel captured the moment of the shooting, which caused tourists traversing Fifth Avenue — a popular street in Playa del Carmen filled with souvenir shops, restaurants
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XINHUA At least 12 people were killed in a confrontation between police and armed civilians in the town of El Salto, in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, Governor Enrique Alfaro said Thursday, June 23. Four police officers were among the fatal victims, Alfaro said via Twitter. “Municipal and state police shot down eight criminals on Wednesday (June 22) and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least four narco-blockades were reported during the early hours of Monday, March 14, along the highways of the western Mexican state of Colima, hours after the arrest of Miguel Aldrín Jarquín Jarquín, alias “El Chaparrito,” leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Reports from motorists, mainly from heavy cargo carriers, indicated that
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In recent weeks, various episodes of extreme violence and brutality have taken place in Mexico, capturing unfavorable media attention around the global and spurring growing outrage at home. Given the magnitude of these events, the response of the presidency of Mexico has been lukewarm at best, and indifferent at worst. On Feb. 27, the
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By KELIN DILLON Throughout a 48-hour period at the beginning of the week of Feb. 14, organized crime groups and cartels operating out of Mexico’s Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range in the Michoacán region executed 27 murders in typically violent narco-style, demonstrating the clear weaponry strength of the region’s criminal organizations and affecting the area’s important international avocado trade.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The bodies of 10 murdered people were found in front of Zacatecas Governor David Monreal’s office on Thursday, Jan. 6. The bodies of eight men and two women were found stuffed inside a flatbed pickup truck left before dawn near a Christmas tree in the main plaza of the state capital. On Friday, Jan.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly 96 hours after they disappeared in Zapopán, Jalisco, on Tuesday, Nov. 16, Mexico’s Navy (Semar) announced Friday, Nov. 19, that it had found the two missing sailors alive, tied and gagged, some 300 kilometers away from where they had last been seen, in that state’s beach resort Puerto Vallarta. The Jalisco State Prosecutor’s
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