Mexicans Are Hoping for a President Who Will Fight Crime
Organized crime groups in Mexico now have about 175,000 members – making them the fifth-biggest employer in the country
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More Dead, Property Damage Recorded after Quake
By MARK LORENZANA The death of a second person as a result of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico on the afternoon of Monday, Sept. 19, was confirmed by authorities from the State Civil Protection Agency of the western Mexican state of Colima. Authorities reported that a person was found dead in the remains of a gym in the city
Read moreThe Comeback Kid of Wines
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When most people think of Spanish wines, they imagine a crisp Crianza from Rioja, a silky Godello from Galicia, or maybe even a sparkling Cava from Penedès. Indeed, Spain is the world’s third-largest wine producer, with thousands of varieties of robust red, fruity whites and floral rosés. But then is there that other Spanish wine, that fortified,
Read moreBlockades Obstruct Highways in Colima after El Caparrito Arrest
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
Read moreEnrique Intensifies to Category 1 Hurricane
XINHUA Tropical storm Enrique intensified into a Category 1 hurricane on Saturday, June 26, off the coast of the western Mexican states of Colima and Michoacán, the National Water Commission (Conagua) reported. “At 07:15 a.m., the center of Enrique was located approximately 230 kilometers southwest of Punta San Telmo, Michoacan, and 265 kilometers south-southwest of Manzanillo, Colima,” Conagua said,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Salina Cruz Pier Expanded Notwithstanding a myriad of problems still left to be resolved in the construction of the Inter-Oceanic Train Corridor at the Tehuantepec Isthmus, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) inaugurated the first leg of the project, constituting an extension of the docking pier at the Salina Cruz port. AMLO said the dock would
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Lozoya’s Very Staged Internment What a hoax! The elaborate circus staged in the wee hours of Friday, July 17, by the Fiscal General of the Republic (FGR) for the arrival in Mexico of extradited prisoner and former head of the state-run Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company Emilio Lozoya Austin has a name: an outright farce. Throngs of
Read moreAnarchist Vandalism Feared for Oct. 2 March
By RICARDO CASTILLO … There’s fear in the air with the advent of the 51st anniversary march of what is known as the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre…
Read moreEclac’s Bárcena: AMLO Grabbed the Bull by the Horns
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexicans are divided between two opinions: One, those who have faith in the “profound economic model transformation” slowly but surely being promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), and two, those AMLO calls “conservative hypocrites,” who are presently even denouncing the Mexican democratic system as nothing less than a scourge for having elected this populist dude
Read moreStrike Two for AMLO at the Bat
By RICARDO CASTILLO Baseball aficionado President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was pitched two unrelated labor strikes in a row on the week of Jan. 21. One was in the state of Michoacán concerning teachers, and the other was in the border city of Matamoros launched by maquiladora (in-bond assembly) industry workers. Both strikes were swerving curves that smoked right past batting
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