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Defense Chief Confirms Rescue of 49 Kidnapped Migrants
Some of the migrants were found traversing a highway, while others were seeking shelter in several houses in the area
Read moreMassive Kidnappings of Migrants Plague Mexico
According to the Mexican federal government, over 2,000 migrants were kidnapped by smuggling gangs and drug cartels last year
Read moreWhite House Calls Kidnapping of US Citizens in Matamoros ‘Unacceptable’
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden is “aware and has been informed” of the four missing U.S. citizens
Read moreRepublican Lawmakers Want US Army to Combat Cartels
Matamoros is considered ground zero for the Gulf Cartel, one of the oldest organized crime groups in Mexico, and is known for its warring factions
Read moreLos Tequileros Cartel Claims Responsibility for Guerrero Massacre
By MARK LORENZANA The criminal group Los Tequileros claimed responsibility for the attacks on the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 5, in the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero’s municipality of San Miguel Totolapan, where its mayor — Conrado Mendoza of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) — and at least 17 other people were killed. Through a video shared on social
Read moreMexican Supreme Court Maintains Pretrial Detention
By MARK LORENZANA Four justices of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) on Monday, Sept. 5, refused to approve, as presented, a proposal that seeks to eliminate forced preventive detention (jail without bail) in the country. The judges who categorically rejected the proposal were Justices Yasmin Esquivel, Loretta Ortiz and Alberto Pérez Dayan, while on the last
Read moreA Crime that Cannot Be Pardoned
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Thursday, Aug. 25, the international streaming platform Netflix released a controversial true-crime series titled “A Kidnapping Scandal: The Florence Cassez Affair,” which tried to clear the name of the French citizen Florence Cassez and her longtime Mexican boyfriend Israel Vallarta Cisneros, both of whom were arrested in 2005 and charged with possession of illegal firearms, involvement
Read moreViolence in Zacatecas Escalates with Abductions, Killings
By MARK LORENZANA At least three people were taken at gunpoint from a bar by armed men at dawn on Saturday, June 18, in the municipal seat of Jerez de García Salinas, in Zacatecas, a state in northcentral Mexico. According to local reports, at least six individuals broke into the bar, firing shots, and proceeded to search the tables to
Read moreCartels Kidnap in Mexico, Collect Ransom in Colombia
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a new twist on transnational organized crime, Mexican authorities have discovered that at least one cartel group is now kidnapping people in Mexico and collecting ransom payments in Colombia. Mexico’s Security and Citizen Protection Secretariat (SSPC) reported Monday, Feb. 28, that this modus operandi has been used in at least four alleged kidnappings
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