OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The political opposition in Mexico City, and particularly the conservative National Action Party (PAN), hopes to have the 2024 election in the bag. The party’s optimistic calculation is based on the overwhelming success it enjoyed in the 2021 citywide election and is reinforced by the fact that, since then, leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The son of the mayor of the Mexican town of Celaya, in the central state of Guanajuato, was shot dead on the afternoon Wednesday, Aug. 17, according to local authorities Guanajuato police said that Guillermo Mendoza Suárez suffered at least 19 bullet wounds from armed assailants while inside a Grand Cherokee SUV that was parked in front
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The mayor of Cuernavaca, Morelos, a tourist town just one hour southwest of Mexico City, was injured, along with his wife and several other people, when a wooden suspension bridge collapsed on Tuesday, June 7. According to local authorities, José Luis Urióstegui Salgado, his wife Luz María Zagal, four municipal aldermen and a city trustee were injured
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With the suspension Monday, March 14, of Sandra Cuevas, head of the Cuauhtémoc Delegation of Mexico City, there is now a void in the leadership of one of the Mexican capital’s oldest and most-historic precincts. Cuevas, the “mayor” of Cuauhtémoc, was ordered to relinquish her post on Monday by a Mexico City judge, after
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By KELIN DILLON Following a number of high-profile controversies throughout her term as head of Mexico City’s oldest and most historic district, Cuauhtémoc Mayor Sandra Cuevas has once more invited criticism into her administration as the official burst into, then canceled, a press conference surrounding allegations that Cuevas had been throwing balloons with 500-peso bills glued to them from the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Antonio Ramírez Itehua, the mayor of the farming town of Astacinga, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, was shot in the early morning hours of Monday Feb. 4, and remains in serious condition. Ramírez Itehua, a member of the Nueva Alianza political party, was attacked by unknown armed assailants in a drive-by shooting
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico City’s first female mayor and a member of the now-ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena), took office on Wednesday, Dec. 5, in a public ceremony at City Hall. Sheinbaum is also the first Jewish mayor on Mexico City, which has a population of about 40,000 Jews. Her first act as mayor, Sheinbaum said,
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