The Joe Biden administration on Friday, April 14, filed legal charges against 28 alleged Sinaloa Cartel leaders — including three sons of notorious jailed drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán
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García Luna, once the public face of Mexico’s war on drugs, is accused of secretly accepting millions of dollars from the Sinaloa Cartel in exchange for turning a blind eye to its members’ illegal activities
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Harris warned that there was a “latent risk of confrontations and/or attacks inside and outside state prisons, due to the presence of antagonistic criminal groups and the increase in violent incidents”
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XINHUA At least one suspect was killed and two people injured in a shootout at the entrance to Terminal 2 of Mexico City’s Benito Juárez City International Airport (AICM) on Friday, Oct. 15, authorities said. “A few moments ago, there was a direct attack on two people at the AICM, two injured people are out of danger,” Mexico City’s Public
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF During the first five months of 2021, femicides in Mexico increased by a whopping 7.1 percent compared to the same period in 2020, Secretary of Public Security Rosa Icela Rodríguez said Monday, June 28. Speaking during the daily press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) at the National Palace, Rodríguez said that
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By KYLIE MADRY The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office has asked the United States to extradite a longtime Mexican official accused of stealing millions of pesos while in office, a spokesman announced during a press conference Saturday, Oct. 31. The previous day, the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office, along with the Morelos Attorney General’s Office, searched the house of Raymundo
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Just last week, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) extended the presence of soldiers on the streets of the nation to support the efforts of municipal and state police, along with the now-one-year-old National Guard (GN) in the fight against crime. The move was seen by AMLO’s critics in the conservative press as “unconstitutional” and “illegal.”
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Jacobson’s Hearsay Interview Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson probably regrets giving an interview to reporter J. Jesús Esquivel that ran on Sunday, May 3, in Mexico’s weekly magazine Proceso. Esquivel mangled the information so badly that Jacobson had to send a set of tweets to claim that she didn’t say what Esquivel said she said.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO UN Approves AMLO’s Proposal Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposal to both the Group of 20 (G-20) and the United Nations to avoid financial speculation and promote access by all nations to medical covid-19 related instruments for treatment was approved by 179 UN member nations, Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced on Tuesday, April 21.
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