By KELIN DILLON According to new data from Mexico’s Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, April was Mexico’s second-highest month in 2022 in terms of rate of intentional homicides, an issue exacerbated in the country’s ongoing feminicide crisis, though the homicide rate has declined overall over the past several years. On the morning of Monday, May 3, the Secretary of
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By KELIN DILLON If Mario Aburto, the confessed killer of Mexican politician Luis Donaldo Colosio, has further information about the 1994 incident’s true events, he will be offered protection, said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on the morning of Thursday, Oct. 28. “If Aburto and the family have something to say about his legal process that reveals another
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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 KELIN DILLON With only eight days left until the May 31 deadline for all public servants of Mexico’s federal government to submit a declaration of their assets, only five of the 19 secretaries of states have fulfilled said obligation, with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) yet to do so himself. The General Law of Responsibilities requires all federal
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s June 6 midterms fast approach, an increase in violence and assassinations of candidates and politicians has seen little-to-no response from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) with any effectiveness in stopping the bloodshed. Back in March, López Obrador promised to create a plan to provide protection to aspiring politicians. Fast forward a month and a
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By KELIN DILLON For the first time in the history of Mexico, almost half of the federal government’s secretariats will now be headed by women. The new cabinet of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will consist of nine women and 10 men, the closest gender differential ever seen in a Mexican president’s cabinet. The appointments break traditional gendered
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By KYLIE MADRY Do the Cabinet Shuffle While the resignation of Mexico’s Security and Public Protection Secretary Alfonso Durazo made headlines several weeks ago, more cabinet changes are coming, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). To replace Durazo, AMLO proposed Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who had been appointed to oversee Mexico’s sea ports and merchant shipping in July, during his
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Friday, Oct. 30, that he intends to name Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who served as his head of municipal security when he was mayor of Mexico City, to replace Alfonso Durazo as the nation’s new security and civil protection secretary. Speaking during his daily morning press conference,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Back to School the Broadcast Way Thirty million Mexican public education students will return to classes on Monday, Aug. 24. The one difference in their education will be that they will stay at home and “attend school” through television broadcasts. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and Public Education Secretary (SEP) Esteban Moctezuma announced the new
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