By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to data presented by the government’s Security and Citizen Protection Secretariat (SSPC) on Wednesday, April 20, Mexico had more registered murders in March than in any other month so far this year. “In March, homicides increased by 17.5 percent compared to the previous four months,” SSPC Secretary Roda Icela Rodríguez said during her
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just two days after the congressional defeat of his controversial electricity reform bill — which would have prioritized state-run carbon-based energy sources over clean private-sector sources — Mexico’s Senate on Tuesday, April 19, passed Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “Plan B” lithium bill as a political consolation prize for the president. The new bill, which will ensure
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF On Sunday, April 3, most of Mexico, including its capital Mexico City, will spring forward one hour at 3 a.m. to adjust to Daylight Savings Time (DST). The northern Mexican state of Sonora does not change its clocks because it wants to stay in sync with the neighboring U.S. state of Arizona, where Mountain
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The exact number of indigenous people in Mexico is uncertain, although, according to the last population census in 2020, it is estimated to be about 16 million. Estimates from civil organizations speak of a higher number. This population is concentrated in 56 different ethnic groups located throughout the country, creating a diverse cultural mosaic
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By KELIN DILLON After attempting to distance himself from a multinational scandal surrounding his residency in a million-dollar mansion owned by an affiliate of Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in Houston, Texas, José Ramón López Beltrán, the son of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), revealed yet another conflict of the interest in the process of his
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Despite what he might think, Mexican Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón will not be a National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party candidate for the 2024 presidential elections for Morena. and that has already been determined by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) himself. Instead, Ebrard has become — intentionally or otherwise — a convenient
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a group of students from Mexico’s Ayotzinapa Normal College, in the coastal state of Guerrero, launched a trailer truck with no brakes at members of the National Guard (GN) on Saturday, Feb. 5, because the GN prevented them from forcefully seizing control of a toll booth along the Mexico City-Acapulco highway, Mexican President
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The democratic political life of Mexico, as in many other Latin American nations, is relatively young. In the last decade, a new chapter began in the construction of Mexican politics after the sudden arrival to the presidency of a newly created party. Breaking through and eventually displacing the parties that historically held political hegemony
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XINHUA A migrant caravan making its way through southern Mexico for the past 17 days resumed its journey on Tuesday, Nov. 9, in the state of Oaxaca, deciding to forgo Mexico City and head straight to the United States border. Irineo Mujica, director of the immigrant rights group Pueblo Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders) and a leader of the caravan,
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By VAYUNAMU BAWA After more than 19 grueling months of limited interchange along the U.S.-Mexico border, tourists and other nonessential travelers from Mexico will for the first time since March 2020 be allowed to cross into the United States starting on Monday, Nov. 8. But there are caveats. All persons 18 and over must present proof of full covid-19 vaccinations
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