PULSE NEWS MEXICO In what no doubt constituted one of the must unusual drug busts in Mexican history, officers from the federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) on Friday, Dec. 2, discovered more than 300 kilograms of fentanyl inside coconuts that were being transported north in a truck in Pitiquito in the Mexican state of Sonora, just 160 kilometers from the
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By MARK LORENZANA According to documents leaked by hacktivist group Guacamaya, the federal government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the Armed Forces have at their disposal a “discretionary bag” worth 113 billion pesos from a trust fund of Mexico’s National Customs Agency (ANAM). Despite the promise of López Obrador to extinguish trust funds or “fideicomisos” under his
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Based on the Guacamaya Leaks — a collection of over 4 million confidential Mexican government documents that were released in early October by a group of national hackers exposing how the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been monitoring journalists using Israeli Pegasus spyware and how the military under his regime sold arms to
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By KELIN DILLON Less than a week after Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) General Director Zoé Robledo announced that Mexico would be hiring 749 international medical specialists to come and work in rural areas of the country, Robledo revealed during a press conference on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 8., that each of these contracted specialists will be paid 53,569
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By MARK LORENZANA The State of Mexico (EdoMéx), Baja California, Veracruz, Puebla and Querétaro are the Mexican states that lead the 2022 Impunity Index in Mexico, which was prepared by the Center for Studies on Impunity and Justice (CESIJ), the University of the Americas Puebla and the International Academic Council. The five aforementioned states are followed by Jalisco, Sinaloa, Aguascalientes, Chiapas and
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report released by international organization Global Witness, Mexico was the country with the most murdered environmental activists in 2021, when the nation bore witness to 54 documented environmentalist deaths. Mexico leads the global pack of environmentalist murders by a large margin, with Colombia – the second most deadly country for environmentalists in 2021
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By MARK LORENZANA A few days after U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar warned that growing insecurity across a number of Mexican states could have a negative impact on foreign investment in the country, Mexican daily newspaper Reforma released a report on Sunday, Aug. 28, detailing the contrasting homicide rates between cities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, based
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By MARK LORENZANA At least 28 people have been violently killed in the northern Mexican coastal state of Sonora since the recent capture of drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, according to a report on Wednesday, July 20, by the Mexican daily newspaper El Universal. The violence has so far been concentrated in the municipalities of Guaymas-Empalme, Cajeme and Caborca. According to
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said on Thursday, July 14, in his daily press conference that there is strong interest from foreign investors to put up solar power plants in the country, but for this to happen control will be given to Mexico’s Secretariat of Energy (Sener), and the main partner will be the Federal
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, July 12, Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) declared a state of emergency in light of the enduring drought facing Mexico’s northern states, establishing new regulations for water distribution in the affected territories through the emergency’s publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation. According to Conagua, newly introduced measures to address the drought issue include
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