By KELIN DILLON As the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues its policy of “hugs, not bullets” against Mexico’s widespread narco trafficking cartels, arrests and seizures by the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) against the groups have gone down in tandem. Between 2020 and 2021, a total of nine anti-cartel practices have been reduced by Sedena,
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By KELIN DILLON After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) already handed his pet project the National Guard and 35 billion pesos at the beginning of the year, López Obrador decided to give them yet another 50 billion pesos on Monday, July 26, more than doubling their already-appointed budget. AMLO said the added funds will help the National Guard
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By KELIN DILLON Reports from Mexico’s federal intelligence have revealed the country’s numerous cartels, including the violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, have recently expanded into using drones equipped with explosives and various other technologies to aid them in drug trafficking. The new drone weaponry allegedly comes from a small group of seven people
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By KELIN DILLON In his press conference on the morning of Thursday, July 15, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that the country’s Armed Forces will be taking control of the newly created National Customs Agency of Mexico (ANAM), with the transition set to happen within the next 180 days. “We are going to strengthen land and maritime
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In the nearly six months since U.S. President Joe Biden took office, Mexico has increased its military presence along its northern and southern borders by 275 percent, the highest level ever, according to government sources. According to a report by the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), a combination of 27,572 soldiers, sailors and national
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) this week expropriated 109 hectares of private property in the State of Mexico (Edoméx) to be used in the ongoing construction of the new General Felipe Ángeles International Airport. The new airport — which is a pet project of the president and which he
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced his pursuit of three significant changes to the Mexican Constitution on Tuesday, June 15, focusing on reforms to the document’s electrical, electoral and military sections. López Obrador proposed constitutional electrical reform seeks to strengthen the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) so that standard users will not pay higher rates
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Based on an article published over the weekend in El Universal newspaper, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) intends to incorporate his 160,000-member-strong National Guard (GN) into the country’s National Defense Secretariat (Sedena). According to the El Universal report, in a recent meeting with “a small group of Mexican businessmen,” AMLO let it slip that he
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By KELIN DILLON The construction of Mexico’s new Santa Lucia airport has already registered 54 accidents, including workers being run over by cars, crushed between pipes, and drilling holes in their hands, adding to the country’s bevy of flight-related problems. Mexico has already seen quite a bit of controversy over the redesign of Mexico City’s airspace to accommodate the Santa
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By KELIN DILLON All proceeds from the Tren Maya, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s longtime pet project, will be given to Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), announced general director of the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur) Rogelio Jiménez Pons on Monday, March 15. The tourism official revealed to El Financiero that the complete 1,500-odd kilometers
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