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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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With the suspension Monday, March 14, of Sandra Cuevas, head of the Cuauhtémoc Delegation of Mexico City, there is now a void in the leadership of one of the Mexican capital’s oldest and most-historic precincts. Cuevas, the “mayor” of Cuauhtémoc, was ordered to relinquish her post on Monday by a Mexico City judge, after
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In yet another example of how badly President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial “hugs not bullets” approach to fighting crime in Mexico has failed, a study released by the nonprofit Causa en Común thinktank earlier this month showed that, on average, one police officer has been murdered each day so far during the
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By KELIN DILLON Following a number of high-profile controversies throughout her term as head of Mexico City’s oldest and most historic district, Cuauhtémoc Mayor Sandra Cuevas has once more invited criticism into her administration as the official burst into, then canceled, a press conference surrounding allegations that Cuevas had been throwing balloons with 500-peso bills glued to them from the
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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 JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Based on legislation recently changed in Mexico’s Federal Penal Code, you might now just be a little safer inside your own home in Mexico. Until the recent unanimous change by the Mexican Senate in October, a house burglar had the same sort of rights to self defense as the home’s owner, the same as if
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — Online groups for foreigners and expats in Mexico are filled with questions like: What are my rights in Mexico? and What can I do if I feel I am being falsely targeted by a police officer? The level of misinformation out there is high. And as in most countries, there are
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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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