Growing tension between Mexico’s drug trafficking cartels over the control of Baja California’s lucrative customs operations has caused the rate of violence to explode in border cities like Tijuana
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By MARK LORENZANA A few days after U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar warned that growing insecurity across a number of Mexican states could have a negative impact on foreign investment in the country, Mexican daily newspaper Reforma released a report on Sunday, Aug. 28, detailing the contrasting homicide rates between cities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, based
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory on Wednesday, Aug. 17, warning Americans not to visit six Mexican states — Zacatecas, Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán, Sinaloa and Tamaulipas, due to recent violent events in the country. The Level 3 advisory, which recommends reconsidering any travel plans to the regions, the second-highest warning the State Department makes, also
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just two days after cartel violence wreaked mayhem in Mexico’s central states of Jalisco and Guanajuato, similar attacks gripped the country’s border city of Ciudad Juárez late Thursday, Aug. 11, leaving at least 11 people dead and six arrested, and Tijuana, on Friday, Aug. 12. Violence was also reported in the northern border towns of Mexicali, Rosarito
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OPINION By MAGDALENA CARRAL Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* Over the past few years, investment conditions in Mexico have been increasingly questioned by analysts and the media, citing decisions such as the cancellation of the Constellation Brands plant in Mexicali and the Mexico City New International Airport that was being constructed in Texcoco. Is it possible that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A slew of multiple flight cancellations due to covid-19 infections of Aeroméxico flight attendants and pilots caused chaos at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) over the weekend, as thousands of passengers were left stranded. According to the Federal Consumer Protection Agency (Profeco), between Friday, Jan. 7, and Sunday, Jan. 9, the nation’s flagship
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It used to be that if you wanted to tighten your thighs or get rid of those not-so-loving love handles or slim your derriere, you had to go under the knife. Sure, liposuction was never quite as traumatic as a full-on body or facelift, but it still constituted surgery, and included all the pain and recovery time
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Back to the Salt Mines Both houses of the Mexican Congress kicked off activities Monday, Feb. 1, after the Christmas sabbatical with an array of very important issues under discussion for voting as soon as legislators feel the bills are ready. It came as no surprise that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday, Jan.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Vaccination Rush There are reports of complaints from all over Mexico that throngs of “influential” persons want to use their jobs in government to be the first in line to get access to the much-desired anti-covid vaccines. In Nogales, Sonora, on the border with Arizona, the Social Security for Government Employees (ISSSTE) officials pointed a finger at
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By KYLIE MADRY Foreign Meds to Flood In Mexico’s medicine shortage will come to an end, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced at his morning press conference Thursday, Oct. 29. The country signed a deal with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) for 32 billion pesos to buy medicine from outside of Mexico, which, until a few
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