By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Alejandro Aparicio Santiago, the newly elected mayor of the town of Tlaxiaco, in the central Mexican state of Oaxaca, was gunned down on New Year’s Day, Tuesday, Jan 1. A member of the now-ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Aparicio Santiago was shot dead during his inaugural ceremony by two unidentified men, who also gravely
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Last Monday, Dec. 24, promised to be a peaceful Christmas Eve day for Mexico. Then, at mid-afternoon, the rumors of a helicopter crash near the city of Puebla, 160 kilometers east of Mexico City, began as a soft murmur and, by early evening, it was a rumbling roar. The governor of the state of Puebla, Martha Erika Alonso,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Newly instated Puebla Governor Martha Erika Alonso was killed in a helicopter crash, along with her husband, Federal Senator and former Puebla Governor Rafael Moreno Valle, and three other people, on Monday, Dec. 24. The helicopter crashed suddenly shortly after takeoff from a heliport in Puebla’s Colonia Santa Maria Coronango area of Puebla. The
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