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
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The overexploitation of soil in Mexico’s wester central state of Michoacán, caused by the cultivation of avocados, has produced drastic effects on the environment and the endemic ecosystems of that state. Mexico is the center of global avocado production, specifically the central region of the country. Today, at least 135,000 hectares of Michoacán — Mexico’s
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Hurricane Rick hit Mexico’s Pacific coastal states of Guerrero and Michoácan late Sunday, Oct. 24, unleashing heavy rains and winds. The Category 2 hurricane also produced heavy rains in Colima, southern Jalisco and western Oaxaca, plus downpours the southwest of the State of Mexico, Morelos, Puebla and Mexico City, according to Mexico’s National Meteorological
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — At least five groups of armed civilians from different indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have come into being in a period of less than three months, according to state officials. These ragtag, self-proclaimed auto-defense forces in the state have claimed that their main objective is to protect their communities from organized
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Halfway through his six-year term, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may claim that nearly 60 percent of Mexicans still support him and his leftist Fourth Transformation (4T) administration, but it’s the remaining 40 percent he needs to worry about. Not only did his National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party lose significant political terrain in the June
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — After years of evident indifference and lack of interest in the internal affairs of the central Mexican state of Michoacán, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) finally paid a long-overdue visit to the state last weekend. And this time, he was neither defiant nor apprehensive about the trip. On the contrary, he seemed happy
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The cartel violence in Mexico has continued to increase since the beginning of the drug war in 2006, and despite government efforts to put an end to it, continues to add victims to its list of causalities on a daily basis. The number of homicides in Mexico went from 9,921 deaths in 2005 to 35,679
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By KELIN DILLON The newly sworn-in governors of Mexican states Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Sonora, Campeche, Nayarit and San Luis Potosí have raised concerns about the precarious financial situations of the states they inherited, noting the lack of funds present to pay payroll, pensions and providers. The National Action Party’s (PAN) Governor of Chihuahua María Eugenia Campos made note of a 11
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Just three weeks before Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo is due to end his six-year term of office, the western Mexican state is rife with social tensions and rampant violence that threaten to embroil the once-rising political star in a scandal that could bury his future ambitions permanently. Aureoles Conejo, who at the beginning
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