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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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The bodies of 10 murdered people were found in front of Zacatecas Governor David Monreal’s office on Thursday, Jan. 6. The bodies of eight men and two women were found stuffed inside a flatbed pickup truck left before dawn near a Christmas tree in the main plaza of the state capital. On Friday, Jan.
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON One year after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) greenlighted the construction of hundreds of nationwide barracks for Mexico’s National Guard in December 2020, the country’s total barrack count has grown by 123 – but so has Mexico’s rate of violence in tandem. According to the National Public Security System (SNSP), between January and October
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The Militarization of Mexico via the National Guard
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The Militarization of Mexico
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XINHUA A migrant caravan traveling by foot through southern Mexico toward the U.S. border on Thursday, Nov. 4, overwhelmed a Mexican National Guard blockade trying to contain its advance and resumed its march toward Mexico City. The migrants and guard members clashed on the highway linking the towns of Pijijiapan and Tonala in the state of Chiapas, leaving at least
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A caravan of an estimated 4,000 Haitian, Central American and South American migrants pushed past Mexican National Guard (GN) troops in the southern border city of Tapachula on Saturday, Oct. 23, heading for Mexico City. Some of the caravan organizers said that in the Mexican capital, they intended to demand the right of free
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A full 42 percent of the nation’s armed forces personnel has been recommissioned by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to conduct non-military jobs, according to a National Security Report presented to the president on Tuesday, Oct. 20. During AMLO’s daily press conference on Tuesday, Mexican National Guard Commander Luis Rodríguez reported that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just one month into his six-year term as governor of central northern Mexican state of Zacatecas, the administration of David Monreal Ávila, from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, has already racked up a roster of 220 drug-related murders, making for an average daily homicide rate of more
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