By KELIN DILLON According to the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons, more than 100,000 persons have been reported missing and left unfound since the organization started keeping records in the 1960s, with most of the disappearances concentrated in states known for a strong presence of organized crime, like Jalisco, Tamaulipas and Veracruz, as well as highly-populated regions like
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICOI STAFF On Tuesday, March 15, Mexican reporter Armando Linares, director of the Monitor Michoacán news outlet, became the eighth journalist to be murdered so far this year in Mexico in a torrent of killings that has earned the government international condemnation. Linares was shot dead in the city of Zitacuaro, Michoacan, outside his home, that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) responded Friday, March 11, to the European Parliament’s appeals for him to protect journalists by calling them “sheep” and “interventionists,” United Nations High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet echoed the European lawmakers, saying that “the levels of violence experienced by Mexican journalists are alarming” and openly criticizing the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Michelle Bachelet said Monday, June 21, that she was “alarmed by the violence in the most recent electoral process in Mexico” and urged the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to investigate the murders of all politicians, supporters and candidates. “Mexico held the most
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