OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Perhaps never, in its almost 135 years of history, had the Mexican town of San José de Gracia become national news, as it did back in March of this year, when social networks spread the execution of a group of people in the old revolutionary way: on a wall, in front of a platoon. But the
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By MARK LORENZANA A group of hooded and masked men in bulletproof vests and armed with high-caliber firearms were caught on camera by terrified residents on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 14, in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a town located in the central highlands region of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The group, whose members call themselves “Los
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In recent weeks, various episodes of extreme violence and brutality have taken place in Mexico, capturing unfavorable media attention around the global and spurring growing outrage at home. Given the magnitude of these events, the response of the presidency of Mexico has been lukewarm at best, and indifferent at worst. On Feb. 27, the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Out of the frying pan, into the fire. That’s how Michoacán native Omar Aviña said he sees his return to his home state after he and his fiancée, Ukrainian Iryna Volkova, were evacuated by the Mexican government from Romania on Friday, March 4, after fleeing the war in Kiev. The couple were among the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what constituted Mexico’s largest mass murder of the year so far, an estimated 17 people were taken hostage during a wake at a funeral home in San José de Gracia, Michoacán, a town on the border with Jalisco, and shot dead in the outside street. The mass execution, which was videotaped by witnesses, was
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