PULSE NEWS MEXICO Renowned Mexican Imagen Televisión news anchor Ciro Gómez Leyva was attacked by two gunmen late Thursday, Dec. 17, just one day after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) verbally assaulted him during his daily press conference. Gómez Leyva was shot at while in his armored SUV, at about 11:10 p.m. Thursday night, just 200 meters from his
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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
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The lifeless body of Sinaloa broadcast commentator Cándida Cristal Vázquez, 34, was found on Saturday, Aug. 27, in that Mexican state’s coast resort of Mazatlán in a ditch on the outskirts of town. According to police reports, Vázquez’s body showed signs of torture and violence. She was the 16th journalist killed in Mexico so far this year,
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Reporter and columnist Fredid Román Román was gunned down as he left his home in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, on Monday, Aug. 23, making him the 15th journalist to be killed in Mexico this year. Román Román was a reporter for various media outlets in the coastal Mexican state of Guerrero, as well as the owner and editor of
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO According to a report published by the Latin American online newspaper Infobae on Wednesday, Aug. 17, Mexican Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera may currently be under investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for allegedly involvement in laundering drug money. Infobae said that the investigation into the cardinal was linked to a separate investigation into Mexican
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The body of Sonora website reporter Juan Arjón López was discovered on Tuesday, Aug. 16, making him the 14th Mexican journalist to be killed so far this year. After seven days missing, Arjón López’s remains were found in the municipality of San Luis Río Colorado, in the northern region of Sonora, authorities said. The Sonora Attorney General’s
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Yet another Mexican journalist was gunned down on Tuesday, Aug. 2, becoming the 13th reporter killed in the country this year. Ernesto Méndez, editorial director of the Tu Voz media outlet and reporter for Zona Franca and Correo newspapers, was murdered inside a bar in Guanajuato’s Colonia Cerro Prieto. He was the 13th journalist killed in Mexico,
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Tamaulipas reporter Antonio de la Cruz from the Ciudad Victoria newspaper Expreso was shot dead on Wednesday, June 29, while leaving his home, becoming the 12th journalist to be killed so far this year in Mexico. De la Cruz, who had been working at Expreso for more than 25 years, was, at that time, accompanied by his
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just four days after the body of Sinaloa website news reporter Luis Enrique Ramírez Ramos was discovered on a dirt road in Culiacán, two more Mexican journalists were killed on Monday, May 9, in the coastal town of Cosoleacaque, Veracruz. Reporters Yesenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera, both from the news portal
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Back in 1952, when U.S. TV news was dominated by men, long before the days of Barbara Walters, Carol Reed was the first weather girl on the CBS local news in New York City. By the time the mid-1960s rolled around, stations across the United States were competing against each other with their respective weather
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