By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Following the disappearance of two members of its forces in Zapopán, Jalisco, on Tuesday, Nov. 16, Mexico’s Navy (Semar) announced Thursday, Nov. 18, that it would increase its military presence in that state- According to military sources, some 450 elite troops from the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) and the Mexican Navy have been deployed
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By KELIN DILLON Reports from Mexico’s federal intelligence have revealed the country’s numerous cartels, including the violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, have recently expanded into using drones equipped with explosives and various other technologies to aid them in drug trafficking. The new drone weaponry allegedly comes from a small group of seven people
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A full month after Mexico’s June 6 midterm elections — the largest in the country’s history — Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo is claiming that the results were illegal since the election was heavily influenced by organized crime groups. Aureoles Conejo, a member of the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), which formed
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The central western Mexican state of Michoacán is at war. For now, an eerie calm prevails, but the state’s 4.7 million residents know full well that that tenuous ceasefire can be broken at any moment Michoacán is ground zero for a turf war between the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), formerly known as the Zetas, and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In his self-aggrandizing address to the nation on Thursday, July 1, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said that the country’s fight against organized crime was “well in hand” and that there were only three cartels currently operating in Mexico. That, it seems, is news to the cartels. In fact, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement
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By KELIN DILLON The U.S. Departments of Justice State, and Treasury have announced a $5 million bounty on Audias Flores Silva, also known as “The Gardener,” for any information relating to his capture, following his identification as one of the leaders of Mexico’s violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). A file was also opened against Flores Silva at the Office
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By KELIN DILLON Reports coming from the Mexican state of Jalisco say that infamous drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho,” has built his own hospital in the region in an unusual gesture of goodwill for the increasingly violent crime boss, and also in an apparent attempt to help combat the kidney disease he apparently suffers from.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Vote Postponed The Mexican Chamber of Deputies postponed the vote on the outsourcing regulation bill, which was slated to take place on Thursday, Nov. 26. Now, the debate over it will continue until sometime next week. The decision came after there was an exponential increase of speakers taking the podium from 70, on Monday, Nov. 23,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Cienfuegos, Talk of the Town The release last week of former Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos from an imminent trial in the United States by U.S. Attorney General William Barr continues to be the talk of the day in Mexico. The fact is is that nobody has the hard facts needed to have a sound opinion on
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By RICARDO CASTILLO José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, alias “El Marro” or “The Sledgehammer,” rose up the ranks of Mexico’s crime hierarchy from a petty thief to leader and founder of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel. El Marro was arrested on Sunday, Aug. 2, and is to be arraigned at the maximum-security prison at Almoloya de Juárez in the State
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