By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Mexico’s Naval (Semar) Secretary José Rafael Ojeda Durán on Friday, July 16, for stating that he considers the country’s judiciary branch as an “enemy” because it includes judges who prevent arrests. “This is a clear symbol of the militarization of Mexico and the degradation of the
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By KELIN DILLON New reports show that Mexico’s federal government has invested nearly 2 billion pesos into the funding of new baseball fields for the country, while only giving 830 million pesos to the National Institute of Women, despite the country’s femicide rate rising by 7.1 percent in 2021 from the previous year. The government has reportedly attempted to justify
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a five-month downward trend in massacres in Mexico, June closed with 10 mass executions nationwide, making it the worst month of the year for attacks of this kind, according to government statistics. Massacres, defined by the government as shootings in which five or more people die during a single violent event, surged in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF During the first five months of 2021, femicides in Mexico increased by a whopping 7.1 percent compared to the same period in 2020, Secretary of Public Security Rosa Icela Rodríguez said Monday, June 28. Speaking during the daily press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) at the National Palace, Rodríguez said that
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By KELIN DILLON As part of Mexico’s ongoing vaccination program against covid-19, the government has now opened vaccine registration for all inhabitants between the ages of 30 and 39, announced Public Health Undersecretary Hugo López-Gatell on Tuesday, June 22. “Registration is simple, with your unique population registration card and registered address,” said López-Gatell, encouraging all eligible residents to sign up
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By KELIN DILLON Six people in Mexico’s northern state of Sonora that were completely vaccinated against coronavirus have reportedly died from covid-19, with a further 24 people who received a single dose of the vaccine likewise passing away in the area. Despite the startling news, Sonora’s Secretary of Health Enrique Clausen urged his state’s inhabitants not to let the news
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By KELIN DILLON With Mexico’s rainy season undoubtedly having arrived, massive rain storms are expected to continue throughout the country, even causing Mexico City to issue an alert to its inhabitants about the storms. Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) released a statement revealing low pressure in both the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico that has a 20 percent chance of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) lost his partisan stranglehold of Congress in the Sunday, June 6, midterm elections, thus limiting his ability to ram through initiatives and rewrite the constitution on a whim, his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party apparently gained territory on the gubernatorial front, winning 11 of 15 slots, according to
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By KELIN DILLON Abel Murrieta, the Citizen’s Movement candidate for mayor of the Cajeme municipality in the Mexican state of Sonora, was assassinated in an armed attack in Ciudad Obregón on Thursday, May 13. The mayoral candidate was reportedly shot 10 times, including two bullets to the head, while distributing flyers for his campaign, and later died from his wounds
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By KELIN DILLON After more than a year-long battle against the covid-19 pandemic, during which many Mexican states were designated by the country’s traffic light color-based risk system as being in the dangerous orange and red zones, finally 29 states have been designated within the yellow and green rankings, meaning a lower risk of coronavirus infection, as of Monday, May
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