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HRW Head Warns US Not to Ignore AMLO’s Human Rights Abuse

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In an op-ed piece published in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday, Dec. 4, the Americas director of the New York-based nonprofit Human Rights Watch (HRW), José Miguel Vivanco, warned the United States to not be complacent about the mounting violations of basic human rights being compiled by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador

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Mexico City’s Women Take to the Streets to Protest Gender-Based Violence

By MEREL HAENEN Under the cold but stately gaze of the capital’s most iconic monument — the perched, golden-winged Angel of Independence on Mexico City’s main avenue, Paseo de la Reforma — thousands of women gathered on Thursday, Nov. 25, to march in protest to femicide and other gender-based violence. The protestors, who occasionally scuffled with police as they marched

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Mexico Ranks Number One in Paid Assassinations

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico has the dubious distinction of ranking Number One worldwide in paid assassinations, according to a report released last week by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), an independent institution based out of Geneva, Switzerland. When it comes to the murder-for-hire of political figures, local authorities, security forces, journalists and representatives of

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Femicides in Mexico Reach Record High in August

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Between July and August, the number of gender-based murders of women in Mexico increased 57.3 percent, to a record total of 107 femicides, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP). The August femicides represent the highest number since records first began to be kept in Mexico in 2015, the

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Univision’s Ramos Confronts AMLO on Violence, Covid

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Univision reporter Jorge Ramos — who two years ago was temporarily blackballed from attending Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) daily press conferences for daring to cite the government’s own figures on rising crimes during one of those pressers — once again challenged the president on Monday, July 5, on the failure of his “hugs, not

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More Violence Under AMLO Than Under Calderón

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In just two and a half years of his six-year term, the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has witnessed more violent crimes than during the entire administration of former President Felipe Calderón, generally pegged as the Mexican head of state with the most violent term. According to the government’s own

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18 Mexican Political Candidates Murdered Ahead of June Elections

By KELIN DILLON Among the reported 61 assassinated political actors since Mexico’s midterm electoral process began in September 2020 were 18 candidates up for government seats this June, reported consulting firm Etellekt’s Indicator of Political Violence in Mexico. Most recently, Ivonne Gallegos Carreño, who was candidate for the municipal presidency of Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, was murdered Saturday, March 20,

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2020 Ranked as Second Most Violent Year in Mexico

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF For the second year in a row — and the second in Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) first two years of his six-year term — Mexico has registered more violent deaths than during any previous administration. According to official figures released in a report Thursday, Jan. 21, by the government’s own Executive

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