By MARK LORENZANA Javier López Zavala, former secretary of the government under Mario Marín, who served as the governor of the central Mexican state of Puebla, was arrested Monday, June 6, in connection to the murder of longtime Mexican human rights worker and legal defender Cecilia Monzón. López Zavala is the ex-husband of Monzón. Monzón was shot dead in front
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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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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 Longtime Mexican human rights worker and legal defender against the mounting incidence of femicide Cecilia Monzón was shot dead in Puebla on Saturday, May 21. The attack occurred around 10 a.m., in front of Puebla’s La Riviera subdivision According to eyewitness and police reports, Monzón was ambushed in her car by two men on
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The 28th Anniversary of the Death of Luis Donaldo Colosio
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A British real estate agent was shot dead in the presence of his 14-year-old daughter in the Mexican tourist beach town Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, on the morning of Saturday, March 12. Chris Cleave, 54, a longtime Mexico resident, was attacked by two assailants on a motorcycle who opened fire on him and
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By KELIN DILLON Power vacuums across Mexican states created by June 6’s midterm elections have caused a dramatic spike in lethal violence throughout the country, with over 57 dead in the past few weeks throughout the course of five massacres. Six people died during a riot in a prison in Villahermosa, Tabasco, followed by seven shot dead by gunmen in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Javier Barajas Piña, a member of the Commission for the Search for Disappeared Persons in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, was assassinated on Sunday, May 30, authorities reported the following day. No details of the shooting were released, nor were any suspects detained, according to Guanajuato police. “The commission members express our deep
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By KELIN DILLON Reports coming from the Mexican state of Jalisco say that infamous drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho,” has built his own hospital in the region in an unusual gesture of goodwill for the increasingly violent crime boss, and also in an apparent attempt to help combat the kidney disease he apparently suffers from.
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