By KELIN DILLON A power vacuum emerged in Mexico after the nation’s June 6 elections, leading to five horrific massacres across the country. One of the most violent, a gruesomely altercation in Zacatecas that left 19 dead, was reportedly caused by a bloody territory war between the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel, experts say. The Zacatecas
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By KELIN DILLON On Saturday, May 1, purported founding member of Mexico’s Sinaloa Drug Cartel Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, better known as “El Güero,” was acquitted of all charges relating to drug trafficking by Jalisco’s Second District Court of Federal Criminal Proceedings, and ordered immediately released. Known for being a close confidant of notorious drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A California woman who was kidnapped in Mexico by the Sinaloa Cartel more than a year ago was rescued by police and military forces on Monday, March 9, according to Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR). The woman, whose name was not revealed by authorities, was said to have been found in “good health.” There
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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XINHUA Mexico intends to comply with a U.S. warrant for the arrest and extradition of Ovidio Guzmán López, a son of convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, Oct. 21. Asked whether Mexican authorities are still determined to capture the younger Guzmán, a member of the world’s largest drug-trafficking organization Sinaloa Cartel,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was found guilty by a New York jury on all 10 counts brought against him on Tuesday, Feb. 12. After a scandalous three-month trial that implicated numerous high-ranking members of the previous Mexican administration – including former President Enrique Peña Nieto – and six days
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Never mind that the Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán trial is raging full-speed ahead in a Brooklyn federal courthouse. What local Mexican politicos are really concerned about is the defecation hitting the fan and spreading all over the face of a now-outcast police commander. And mind you, he’s reacting the same way that any normal honest citizen would. , who according
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By RICARDO CASTILLO For a prelude to a presidency, surely that of Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has got too many dissonant chords. First it was his decision to control oil crude production that caused a market shakeup and further peso devaluation. Then came the cancelation of the ongoing construction of the new airport that sent markets skidding and pumped the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) increased its pressure on major Mexican heroin traffickers on Tuesday, March 6, by targeting individuals and companies close to the new leadership of the Ruelas Torres drug trafficking organization (Ruelas Torres DTO). The Treasury imposed additional sanctions on eight Mexican individuals and
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