PULSE NEWS MEXICO At least nine people have been detained by authorities in relationship to the Saturday, July 23, shootout in Mexico’s Playa del Carmen beach resort, police reported Thursday, July 28. According to police, at least two of the nine arrested persons were directly linked to the Fifth Avenue shootout in Playa del Carmen, in the Mexican Caribbean state
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s heightened military presence on its southern border with Guatemala has resulted in a 79 percent increase in arrests of undocumented Central American migrants since its new patrol policy went into effect on June 21, said Mexican Secretary of Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval. According to Sandoval, border patrols have increased in the region since June 21, as
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XINHUA At least six police officers died early Sunday, June 26, during a shootout with armed individuals traveling in a convoy of about 10 armored trucks in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León, the state’s Security Secretariat said. “Four more policemen were injured and are already receiving medical attention,” the secretariat said in a written statement. The attack occurred
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XINHUA At least 12 people were killed in a confrontation between police and armed civilians in the town of El Salto, in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, Governor Enrique Alfaro said Thursday, June 23. Four police officers were among the fatal victims, Alfaro said via Twitter. “Municipal and state police shot down eight criminals on Wednesday (June 22) and
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XINHUA At least 10 “heavily” armed gunmen were shot dead and seven other people were wounded on Tuesday, June 14, in a shootout with Mexican police in the Texcaltitlán municipality, in the central State of Mexico (Edoméx), officials said. The gunfight began when agents from the local prosecutor’s office attempted to carry out an arrest warrant and were met with
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Unless you have been arrested for being involved in a bar brawl, public urination or driving while intoxicated, you probably did not even know a certain type of court exists in Mexico. While other countries have traffic court, small claims or other type of lesser-infraction courts, in more and more communities, including in Mexico City,
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE An interesting dichotomy has been going on in Mexico since the summer of 2020 at the intersection of Mexico City’s two most prominent avenues: Reforma and Insurgentes. The large white building on that corner is the Mexican Senate, both the symbol and space to deliberate and pass laws that take into account the common good
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After more than 19 months of occupation by the predominantly female Okupa movement protest group, the headquarters of Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) in downtown Mexico City was reclaimed by capital police on the night of Friday, April 15. Mexico City’s Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) police implemented an operation to surround the
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An X-ray of Police Corruption in Mexico
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Call me crazy, but I love driving in Mexico. Whenever the topic comes up, I tell people that, and the usual response is, “Are you a glutton for punishment?” or some more colorfully worded reaction. I have never been to India. Driving in India is supposedly truly intense. Rome was crazy and I survived. Nairobi
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