By KELIN DILLON Students in the Mexican state of Jalisco have been given the go-ahead to restart in-person education by the state’s government, despite not yet receiving the green light on the Mexican government’s traffic-light covid risk ranking system, something the federal government staunchly insisted states would need to reopen schools, until now. Jalisco, located along Mexico’s western Pacific coast,
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) has reportedly spread its influence over the past four years into the states of Michoacán, Zacatecas and Guanajuato, with narco trafficking-linked violence in the regions increasing more and more as time goes on. The CJNG is known for its military-like tactics, using camouflage and heavy-duty artillery, with weapon stockpiles so powerful
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Energy Control Center (Cenace) has been planning strategically timed blackouts across the country to help reduce energy consumption following a low supply of natural gas, which have now been affecting parts of Mexico that were never planned to lose power. Northern Mexico mainly uses gas to generate its energy, and the Texas pipeline that brings
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Alfonso Romo Quits Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) chief of staff for the past two years, entrepreneur Alfonso Romo, turned in his resignation on Wednesday, Dec. 2. Speaking during his morning press conference on Thursday, Dec. 3, AMLO that Romo “will continue to be my liaison with the business sector.” “The truth is that he
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XINHUA Six people were killed in a series of shootouts on the night of Wednesday in small border towns between Mexico’s central state of Michoacán and neighboring Jalisco, local police reported Thursday, Dec, 3. The Michoacan Public Security Secretariat said via Twitter that law enforcement agencies found six bodies when they were responding to reports of gunfire in the towns
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Missing Mexican Instagram model Adriana Murrieta Trevino, who was found in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on Monday, Nov. 2, apparently died of strangulation, police reported over the weekend. Murrieta Trevino, 29, was first reported missing by her family on Sunday, Nov. 2, after flying into Guadalajara, Jalisco, from the city of Culiacan, Sinaloa. She was a
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By KYLIE MADRY Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has long been disliked by members of the opposition parties, who formed the country’s ruling class until AMLO and his National Regeneration Movement (Morena) took power. That distaste is turning into open revolt, as the president faces threats from the rightwing National Anti-AMLO Front (Frena), the newly formed Sí por
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By RICARDO CASTILLO In 10 separate gatherings of the so-called Federalist Alliance, the governors of as many Mexican states held meetings to demand that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) not drastically cut their income in the 2021 national budget. They also protested against the recent elimination of 109 federally funded trusts that sprinkled money into their states. In tandem,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The covid-19 pandemic may still be surging in Jalisco, but that is not going to keep Mexico’s “Tapatio State” from celebrating one of the country’s most deep-rooted and picturesque national holidays, the Day of the Dead, observed on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2. In order to continue the traditional celebration of Día de Muertos
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By RICARDO CASTILLO News that Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) won the internal elections (congress and municipalities, respectively) in the states of Coahuila and Hidalgo on Sunday, Oct. 18, came as no surprise. But those valid victories do not merit all the crowing that PRI President Alejandro “Alito“ Moreno is making over it. Alito is trying to make the win
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