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Tijuana Journalist Killed after Suing Former Baja Governor
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just days after Mexican journalists Margarito Martínez Esquivel and José Luis Gamboa were killed on Jan. 17 and Jan. 10, respectively, yet another reporter, Lourdes Maldonado of Tijuana’s Semanario del Séptimo Día, was murdered on Sunday, Jan. 23, presumably for her legal disputes with former Baja California Governor Jaime Bonilla. Maldonado, who was shot
Read moreTwo More Mexican Journalists Killed in a Single Week
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Two more Mexican journalists covering the country’s drug cartels and political corruption — photojournalist Margarito Martínez Esquivel and reporter José Luis Gamboa — were killed in the space of just one week for doing their jobs, adding to a total of at least 145 murdered reporters in the country in the last two decades
Read moreA Nation on the Verge of Collapse
Former U.S. envoys and military commanders plead for Afghanistan
Read moreCDMX Mayor Offers Solidarity, Protection to Threatened News Editor
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum vowed moral support and police security Saturday, Nov. 27, for El Universal newspaper editor Francisco Reséndiz, who was threatened with bodily harm earlier that day by two men who boxed in his car when he was driving. “We strive every day to make our city a space of freedom
Read moreAn Espionage Scandal and Gubernatorial Excesses
OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A few weeks ago, a media scandal erupted in Mexico after the announcement of an arrest warrant issued by federal authorities for well-known television host Inés Gómez Mont and her husband Victor Manuel Álvarez Puga. The Mexican government issued an international Interpol alert against the couple in order to prevent their possible flight to
Read moreNo Two Ways About It, the Referendum Was a Disaster
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No matter how you look at it, Mexico’s public referendum (consulta) on Sunday, Aug. 1, to determine whether to prosecute former presidents for their alleged misdeeds was a disaster. According to early reports from the National Electoral Institute (INE), which was in charge of organizing and supervising the 528-million-peso fiasco, between 7.07 and 7.74 percent of the
Read moreJulio Hernández Makes Fool out of AMLO and the Mañaneras
By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) daily morning press conferences at the National Palace have turned into quite the spectacle of his “I’m right, you’re wrong” mentality, perfectly showcased via his weekly lambastment of the country’s most respected publications in the new “Who’s Who in Media Lies of the Week” segment, one journalist came prepared
Read moreWashington Post Says Mexico Is Spying on Journalists
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to deny that the Mexican government is spying on journalists and opposition leaders, a report published on Sunday, July 18, in the Washington Post would seem to contract his claims. The article — written by Dana Priest, Craig Timberg and Souad Mekhennet in cooperation with 16
Read moreThe Economist Compares AMLO to Cantinflas
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The highly respected British news magazine The Economist compared Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the late slapstick comedian Cantinflas in its Saturday, July 17 edition. “It is a question that might have been devised by Cantinflas, a comic actor who turned the Mexican taste for circumlocution into an absurdist art form,”
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