OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In recent weeks in Mexico, the national news headlines have pointed to the same issue: the growing numbers of missing and murdered women throughout the country. This social phenomenon is on the rise, with 969 gender-based murders of women last year alone. The first cases of mass femicide in Mexico that captured the
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The parliamentary defeat on Sunday, April 17, of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform bill was not only a bruising blow for the Mexican president’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, but it was also a chance for the Mexican people to settle some outstanding score within the country’s so-called Green Party. In the
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The cultural diversity of Mexico today is the result of the syncretism of the native indigenous peoples and the Western culture, brought from Spain by the colonizers to the territory in 1521 that produced what we now know as the Mexican culture. Every aspect of the country’s indigenous cultures — includings language, religion, art
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A Mexican federal judge from the First Court of the District of Yucatan on Monday, April 18, granted a provisional suspension of the construction of section five of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s pet megaproject Tren Maya tourist train due to it not having environmental authorization to proceed. The section of the track, which
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF On Sunday, April 3, most of Mexico, including its capital Mexico City, will spring forward one hour at 3 a.m. to adjust to Daylight Savings Time (DST). The northern Mexican state of Sonora does not change its clocks because it wants to stay in sync with the neighboring U.S. state of Arizona, where Mountain
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In order to protest mounting insecurity along Mexico’s highways and toll charges, as well as increasing fuel prices, dozens of heavy cargo trucks set up blockades on Tuesday, March 22, in at least 20 states. Members of the Mexican Alliance of Organization of Transporters (Amotac) began their mobilizations with a blockade in the vicinity
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A British real estate agent was shot dead in the presence of his 14-year-old daughter in the Mexican tourist beach town Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, on the morning of Saturday, March 12. Chris Cleave, 54, a longtime Mexico resident, was attacked by two assailants on a motorcycle who opened fire on him and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As covid-19 sanitary measures continue to ease nationwide, Mexico is due to open a total of 137 archeological sites for equinox observances this year, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced Saturday, March 12. While still requiring masks and other sanitary precautions, the INAH said in a press release that it is
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Despite its short existence in Mexican politics, the country’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, founded in 2011 by the current president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has successfully positioned itself as the country’s leading political force in all levels of government. Its popularity over the course of the last decade has marked
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Most people would agree that the most essential function of a government is to provide safety and security to its citizens. In Mexico, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who says the government is doing well when it comes to offering safety. Recent polls conducted by Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography
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