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 Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, March 10, called members of the European Parliament (EP) “sheep” and “interventionists” after that body, the only directly elected entity within the European Union (EU), called on him earlier in the day to provide protection to journalists and to stop using the “populist rhetoric” that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In yet another example of how badly President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial “hugs not bullets” approach to fighting crime in Mexico has failed, a study released by the nonprofit Causa en Común thinktank earlier this month showed that, on average, one police officer has been murdered each day so far during the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what constituted Mexico’s largest mass murder of the year so far, an estimated 17 people were taken hostage during a wake at a funeral home in San José de Gracia, Michoacán, a town on the border with Jalisco, and shot dead in the outside street. The mass execution, which was videotaped by witnesses, was
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to Mexican government statistics, in the first month and a half of 2022, there were at least 33 mass murders in the country, with more than 147 victims. Most of the murders — almost all of which have been linked to organized crime groups — took place in six states where warring drug
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Thursday, Feb. 10, yet another Mexican journalist was murdered, the fifth so far this year, and the 50th since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took office three years ago. Heber López, from the internet news site Noticias Web in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, was shot dead in broad daylight as he left his office Thursday
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Mexico’s Murder Index
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By KELIN DILLON In a new filing with the Organization of American States (OAS), Mexico’s three-party Va por México alliance consisting of the National Action Party (PAN), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has accused Mexican organized crime of interfering with the nation’s 2021 electoral process through ballot box stuffing, violence and intimidation,
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