PULSE NEWS MEXICO With the shooting death of Noé Ornelas Sanguino, mayor of the town of Villa Jiménez, in the northwestern Mexican state of Michoacán, whose body was found on an abandoned stretch of highway on Monday, June 27, there have been at least 59 mayors and municipal alderman murdered so far under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López
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By MARK LORENZANA A group of hooded and masked men in bulletproof vests and armed with high-caliber firearms were caught on camera by terrified residents on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 14, in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a town located in the central highlands region of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The group, whose members call themselves “Los
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The natural wealth of Mexico makes it a mega-diverse country, with nearly 200,000 species, equivalent to 10 percent of the total flora and fauna that exists on the planet. Of those species, 7,472 are endemic to Mexico. But despite the foregoing, the sustainable management of Mexico’s biodiversity is currently at risk due to the overexploitation of
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By MARK LORENZANA According to the Federal Security Cabinet, Mexico registered at least 2,472 murders in May of this year, an average of 80 deaths per day, although the final toll is yet to be counted. Based on past figures, May will probably have a final count of the highest daily average since August 2020. Guanajuato once again took the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Zoé Robledo, director of Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS), announced on Tuesday, May 24, an open call to recruit and hire medical specialists for 13,765 unfilled positions across the country. Speaking during the morning press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Robledo said that the states with the greatest need for specialists
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON According to new data from Mexico’s Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, April was Mexico’s second-highest month in 2022 in terms of rate of intentional homicides, an issue exacerbated in the country’s ongoing feminicide crisis, though the homicide rate has declined overall over the past several years. On the morning of Monday, May 3, the Secretary of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to defend his unilateral decision earlier this month to hire 500 Cuban doctors at higher salaries than those paid to their Mexican counterparts, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the country already has enough physicians without having to import more. According to the WHO,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As Mexico seeks to deploy operational military units to the Western state of Michoacán, the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) has blocked Mexican military personnel from entering the area in its quest to maintain control over the Michoacán region, one of the main centers of Mexican cartels’ methamphetamine-producing laboratories that the groups later traffic
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The cultural diversity of Mexico today is the result of the syncretism of the native indigenous peoples and the Western culture, brought from Spain by the colonizers to the territory in 1521 that produced what we now know as the Mexican culture. Every aspect of the country’s indigenous cultures — includings language, religion, art
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