By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF On Saturday, Feb. 5, the National Water Commission (Conagua) cut off access to potable water for residences of some parts of Mexico City and the State of Mexico in order to allow repairs to be made on an “unforeseen problem” in the Cutzamala System, main source of clean water for the Valley of Mexico.
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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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By KELIN DILLON In a new filing with the Organization of American States (OAS), Mexico’s three-party Va por México alliance consisting of the National Action Party (PAN), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has accused Mexican organized crime of interfering with the nation’s 2021 electoral process through ballot box stuffing, violence and intimidation,
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Dec. 1, a group of cartel hitmen used a gas delivery truck to ram into the front gates of Mexico’s Tula prison in the central state of Hidalgo, ultimately freeing nine people, including the leaders of criminal organization “Pueblos Unidos,” though three escapees were later recaptured. Armed with AR-15 rifles, grenade launchers and other weaponry,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After concluding a 13-day investigation into Mexico’s appalling record of disappeared persons — which number more than 95,000 according to government figures — the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) said Friday, Nov. 26, that there is “almost absolute impunity” for those responsible. “As of Friday, more than 95,000 people have been officially
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XINHUA At least 19 people were killed and more than two dozen others injured on Friday, Nov. 26, after their bus crashed into a house in the town of Joquicingo in central Mexico due to a brake malfunction, a local officials said. The brakes on the bus, which was heading to a religious shrine in the State of Mexico (EdoMéx)
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS I have always been a squeamish eater, and frankly the idea of pork belly stewed in a broth of hominy and chili peppers topped with sliced radishes and lettuce never really appealed to me. So when my friend Enrique Castillo Pesado invited me to lunch at one of Mexico’s 20-plus Potzollcalli restaurants, my immediate response was, “Thanks,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Aeroméxico, Mexico’s largest airline, reiterated Friday, Nov. 19, that it will continue to use exclusively the Benito Juárez International Airport for all its flights into and out of Mexico City. The announcement came as a blow to the administration of leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who has invested vast amounts of political
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The overexploitation of soil in Mexico’s wester central state of Michoacán, caused by the cultivation of avocados, has produced drastic effects on the environment and the endemic ecosystems of that state. Mexico is the center of global avocado production, specifically the central region of the country. Today, at least 135,000 hectares of Michoacán — Mexico’s
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican actor Octavio Ocaña, star of the television series “Vecinos” for more than 16 years, was killed on Friday, Oct. 29, in the State of Mexico’s Cuautitlán Izcalli municipality, just outside Mexico City. The 22-year-old actor was shot dead while inside a gray Jeep that he owned after allegedly being chased by local police
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