OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Over the weekend, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) paid a visit to the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, home of infamous drug lord and founder of the Sinaloa Cartel Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, currently in a U.S. high-security prison on 17 counts of homicide, drug trafficking, conspiracy, organized crime against health, money laundering, homicide and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The bodies of 10 murdered people were found in front of Zacatecas Governor David Monreal’s office on Thursday, Jan. 6. The bodies of eight men and two women were found stuffed inside a flatbed pickup truck left before dawn near a Christmas tree in the main plaza of the state capital. On Friday, Jan.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. government announced Wednesday, Dec. 15, that it will pay up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of any of the four sons of renowned Sinaloa drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. The announcement was made through the U.S. State Department and specified the names of the four sons,: Ovidio
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of infamous drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman, was sentenced to three years in a U.S. federal prison on Tuesday, Nov. 30, for her alleged involvement in her husband’s Sinaloa Drug Cartel. The 32-year-old Coronel Aispuro, a former teenage beauty queen, had pleaded guilty on three federal counts, including money
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Two people were killed and four injured, including one international tourist, during a cartel shootout at a luxury resort near Cancun, Quintana Roo, on Thursday, Nov. 4. According to local police accounts, 15 men armed with long guns stormed the Puerto Morelos resort’s beach from a boat and opened fire on members of a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF New reports have revealed that a lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel has assumed partial control of the trafficking of migrants from countries like Haiti, Venezuela and Cuba into Mexico and up toward the United States, charging $22,000 per person moved from South and Central America up to the U.S.-Mexico border. The alleged lieutenant, only
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The ever-expanding scope of the Mexican cartels around the world in the last two decades has proven the great adaptability that these organizations possess and their success to develop a highly functional and complex operational business structure. Up until now, the North American market has been the most profitable for Mexican cartels, representing an average
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A full month after Mexico’s June 6 midterm elections — the largest in the country’s history — Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo is claiming that the results were illegal since the election was heavily influenced by organized crime groups. Aureoles Conejo, a member of the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), which formed
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The central western Mexican state of Michoacán is at war. For now, an eerie calm prevails, but the state’s 4.7 million residents know full well that that tenuous ceasefire can be broken at any moment Michoacán is ground zero for a turf war between the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), formerly known as the Zetas, and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In his self-aggrandizing address to the nation on Thursday, July 1, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said that the country’s fight against organized crime was “well in hand” and that there were only three cartels currently operating in Mexico. That, it seems, is news to the cartels. In fact, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement
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