By KELIN DILLON Less than a week after Mexico’s Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) prohibited the federal government and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration from promoting April 10’s upcoming mandate revocation through government propaganda, the Mexican government has come under fire for using military planes, the National Guard and Army generals to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite a strong military presence sent by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) late last year to curb mounting violence in that state, Michoacán has registered at least 694 murders so far this year, according to official figures. The special operations and the incursion of thousands of soldiers and National Guardsmen into Michoacán
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By KELIN DILLON In the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, gangs of huachicoleros – gas thieves and resellers – have taken their operations to another level of stealth, building secret underground tunnels to tap into and siphon gas from the area’s network of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) pipelines without detection. According to soldiers stationed in the region, the huachicoleros are able
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least four narco-blockades were reported during the early hours of Monday, March 14, along the highways of the western Mexican state of Colima, hours after the arrest of Miguel Aldrín Jarquín Jarquín, alias “El Chaparrito,” leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Reports from motorists, mainly from heavy cargo carriers, indicated that
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF On the eve of the start of the Mexican Tennis Open 2022 (one of the most important Acapulco tourist events of the year, set to run from Monday, Feb. 21, through Saturday, Feb. 26), and despite efforts by local and federal authorities to reinforce security measures, at least 80 sales stands were set ablaze
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a group of students from Mexico’s Ayotzinapa Normal College, in the coastal state of Guerrero, launched a trailer truck with no brakes at members of the National Guard (GN) on Saturday, Feb. 5, because the GN prevented them from forcefully seizing control of a toll booth along the Mexico City-Acapulco highway, Mexican President
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A group of about 300 students from Mexico’s Ayotzinapa Normal College, in the coastal state of Guerrero, launched a trailer truck with no brakes at members of the National Guard (GN) on Saturday, Feb. 5, after the GN prevented them from taking control of a toll booth along the Autopista del Sol Mexico City-Acapulco
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ah, the fickle love of an authoritarian president. When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) loves you, you can do no wrong. His buddy-buddy Félix Salgado Macedonio — who was repeatedly accused of rape, embezzlement and close ties with drug cartels, but still managed to garnish the governorship of the coastal state of Guerrero, albeit
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Two Canadian tourists were shot dead on Friday, Jan. 21, in the Mexican resort town of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, inside their Xcaret Hotel. Additionally, another Canadian tourist was wounded when an unidentified man, apparently staying at that same hotel, opened fire in the hotel lobby after having a verbal altercation with the
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