By MARK LORENZANA Two Jesuit priests were shot dead by armed individuals on Monday, June 20, inside a church in the municipality of Urique in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Their bodies were allegedly taken by the gunmen. A man pursued by the gunmen had purportedly sought refuge in the church, and the two priests — Javier Campos Morales
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By KELIN DILLON Reports of extortion have reached record highs in Mexico this year under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), with figures from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) revealing shortages across the country in products like produce and poultry have resulted in price gouging and extortion nationwide, adding to Mexico’s widespread
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By MARK LORENZANA The number of missing women in Mexico City has increased 900 percent so far under the administration of Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum, compared to the previous administration headed by Miguel Ángel Mancera. According to Mexico’s National Data Registry of Missing or Disappeared Persons, the number of missing women in the capital increased from 93 cases (registered
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By MARK LORENZANA As an extreme drought grips Nuevo León, a state in the northeast region of Mexico — making water increasingly scarce — thieves have resorted to illegally tapping the biggest water reservoir in the state, El Cuchillo Dam. The water crisis in Nuevo León has worsened in the last six months that its state government, headed by Governor Samuel García, has
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By MARK LORENZANA According to a report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Sunday, June 12, the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) “is shifting the country to a 1970s industrial policy” and has resorted to “greater state intervention” by targeting privately owned energy firms legally operating in Mexico and “backing state-run energy giants.” The WSJ
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican Judge Bárbara Melissa Gómez on Saturday, June 11, removed former Nuevo León governor and presidential candidate Jaime “El Bronco” Rodríguez Calderón from preventive detention and placed him under house arrest. Rodríguez Calderón will now face the two current criminal proceedings against him at home and will not be brought back to the prison in Apodaca, Nuevo
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO While Mexico’s covid-19 czar, Undersecretary of Public Health (SSA) Hugo López-Gatell, proclaimed in April that the country had finally overcome the coronavirus pandemic, the incidence of the disease has once again begun to tick upward, with more than 18,000 cases confirmed in the first week of June. Between Sunday, May 29, and Saturday, June 4, the country
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) on Friday, May 27, fined Iberdrola Energía Monterrey an exuberant amount of 9,145,388,400 pesos for the sale of energy to customers that were not original partners in its self-supply permit. When Iberdrola opened the plant in question, its total investment was 9 billion pesos, that is 145,388,400 less than the fine imposed
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The body of Debanhi Escobar, a teenage girl from the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León who went missing on April 8 after having been left on the side of the road by a taxi driver late at night, was found on Thursday, April 21, inside a cistern tank at a cheap hotel in
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