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Mexico City Government Collects Millions for Deaths of Endangered Rabbits

By MARK LORENZANA The Chapultepec Zoo, located in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, is the oldest and best-known wildlife park in the country. It is also home to the only reproductive colony in the world of teporingos, also known as zacatuches or volcano rabbits, which are an endemic and highly endangered species. However, the capital government has allegedly collected millions of

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More Missing Women in Mexico City under Sheinbaum’s Watch

By MARK LORENZANA The number of missing women in Mexico City has increased 900 percent so far under the administration of Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum, compared to the previous administration headed by Miguel Ángel Mancera. According to Mexico’s National Data Registry of Missing or Disappeared Persons, the number of missing women in the capital increased from 93 cases (registered

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Under Sheinbaum, Homicides Surge in Mexico City

By KELIN DILLON While the national figures of Mexico’s enduring homicide problem have made headlines across the week of May 23, the spotlight has now been transfixed at the local level as new data reveals that the Mexico City government has broken homicide records underneath the administration of Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum. Though Sheinbaum has made a recent show of Mexico

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FGJ Tracks 1 Billion Missing Pesos from Mancera’s Mayoral Term

By KELIN DILLON In part of its quest to investigate alleged corruption and illegal enrichment by past Mexican government officials, the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (FGJ) has reportedly tracked one billion missing pesos that were purportedly embezzled under the administration of former Mexico City Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera. The investigation has apparently revealed a network of shell companies used

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Mexico City AG Requests Extradition of Ex-Police Chief

By KYLIE MADRY The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office has asked the United States to extradite a longtime Mexican official accused of stealing millions of pesos while in office, a spokesman announced during a press conference Saturday, Oct. 31. The previous day, the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office, along with the Morelos Attorney General’s Office, searched the house of Raymundo

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AMLO to Name a Woman as Head of Mexican Security

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Friday, Oct. 30, that he intends to name Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who served as his head of municipal security when he was mayor of Mexico City, to replace Alfonso Durazo as the nation’s new security and civil protection secretary. Speaking during his daily morning press conference,

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Mexican Politicos Powwow over New Opposition Party

By RICARDO CASTILLO     It is just now that we are witnessing the devastating political tsunami the victory of now-Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) wrought on the nation’s political system and the parties that competed in the 2018 presidential election. AMLO’s party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), swept the election with 53 percent of the vote, while his nearest

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