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 KELIN DILLON Throughout a 48-hour period at the beginning of the week of Feb. 14, organized crime groups and cartels operating out of Mexico’s Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range in the Michoacán region executed 27 murders in typically violent narco-style, demonstrating the clear weaponry strength of the region’s criminal organizations and affecting the area’s important international avocado trade.
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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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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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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — More than four months have passed since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced, in his most recent visit to the region, the implementation of a Support Plan for the central Mexican state, which was suppose to transform the future of the wartorn state by promoting the development of its inhabitants and guaranteeing
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said Tuesday, Dec. 14, that it is the responsibility of both Mexico and the United States to protest migrants by creating the conditions for economic and social development in Central America. Speaking during an interview with the Mexican daily newspaper El Universal and just 100 days into his
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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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By KELIN DILLON Because Mexico has lost some 662,000 hectares of primary forest and 4.2 million hectares of tree cover over the past 18 years, organizations like Greenpeace have revealed that more than 15 percent of the nation’s primary forest has been put at risk by illegal deforestation to create fields or pastures and illicit logging practices. “Illegal logging in
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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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By KELIN DILLON Seven years after 43 male students from Mexico’s Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were kidnapped and disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014, the students’ parents have demanded the federal government and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) deepen investigation into the army’s purported role in the tragic event. Allegations and evidence of the 27 Infantry Battalion of Iguala’s involvement
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