By MARK LORENZANA Elements of the Citizen Security Secretariat (SSC) of the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office, in coordination with Mexico’s National Defense Secretariat (Sedena), have seized drug shipments, searched homes and even detained leaders of Los Chapitos (Little Chapos), a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, which has been attempting to expand its operations in Mexico City for almost a
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) has requested 13.9 billion pesos in a bid to upgrade its military service vehicles. According to Sedena, in recent years it has faced problems mobilizing military personnel on a national scale because of obsolete vehicles. In April of this year, the General Directorate of Military Transportation requested tax authorities to approve
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By MARK LORENZANA Since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office nearly four years ago, the Mexican Armed Forces have not only increased their presence on the streets, but have also embarked on a new mission: to become successful entrepreneurs. On April 13 of this year, Mexico’s Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) announced the creation of a
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By MARK LORENZANA The soil of the fourth section of Mexico City’s Chapultepec Forest, which is currently being developed as a new tourist area with a number of added attractions, was found to be contaminated with high levels of mercury and arsenic, exceeding the limits allowed by the Official Mexican Standard (NOM) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Chapultepec Forest’s
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XINHUA At least 12 people were killed in a confrontation between police and armed civilians in the town of El Salto, in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, Governor Enrique Alfaro said Thursday, June 23. Four police officers were among the fatal victims, Alfaro said via Twitter. “Municipal and state police shot down eight criminals on Wednesday (June 22) and
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By KELIN DILLON After an unexpected friendship blossomed between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and former U.S. President Donald Trump during the leaders’ administrative overlap as a bond over baseball brought the ideologically opposed self-professed socialist and staunch Republican conservative together, Trump’s post-administration speaking engagements have brought fresh commentary on his perspective of the relationship between the two
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, March 29, parents and families of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa who disappeared in September 2014 took to a conference to express their disappointment and angry feelings toward the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). In its three years in office thus far, the López Obrador administration has done little to resolve
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By KELIN DILLON Several years after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) canceled the construction of Mexico’s New International Airport (NAICM) in 2018 in favor of building the purportedly less-expensive Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) in the region, new figures have revealed that the AIFA has cost the Mexican government 116 billion pesos as of mid-March 2022 – a
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By KELIN DILLON A new report by Mexico’s Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) detailing the expenditure of the government’s public mega-projects, executed through the compilation of 15 financial and performance audits, has revealed inherent disorder, delays and irregularities found within the construction of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) pet projects, like the Tren Maya, the Dos Bocas
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF On the eve of the start of the Mexican Tennis Open 2022 (one of the most important Acapulco tourist events of the year, set to run from Monday, Feb. 21, through Saturday, Feb. 26), and despite efforts by local and federal authorities to reinforce security measures, at least 80 sales stands were set ablaze
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