By MARK LORENZANA According to the Federal Security Cabinet, Mexico registered at least 2,472 murders in May of this year, an average of 80 deaths per day, although the final toll is yet to be counted. Based on past figures, May will probably have a final count of the highest daily average since August 2020. Guanajuato once again took the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Although the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to claim that his government has reduced the trend of intentional homicides nationwide, in just three days this week, a new murder was reported every 15 minutes. On Tuesday, May 24, Mexico registered the second-highest record of homicides in the president’s entire
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Zoé Robledo, director of Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS), announced on Tuesday, May 24, an open call to recruit and hire medical specialists for 13,765 unfilled positions across the country. Speaking during the morning press conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Robledo said that the states with the greatest need for specialists
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS >Despite having failed admission exams, a recent internal air audit detected that more than a quarter of all air traffic controllers in Mexico have been working since 2019 in the Services to Navigation in the Mexican Air Space (Seneam). In an audit carried out in 2021 of the applicant selection process, Seneam’s Internal Control Office (OIC) found,
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By KELIN DILLON According to the National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons, more than 100,000 persons have been reported missing and left unfound since the organization started keeping records in the 1960s, with most of the disappearances concentrated in states known for a strong presence of organized crime, like Jalisco, Tamaulipas and Veracruz, as well as highly-populated regions like
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Although high temperatures and stagnant air are expected to continue to create high ozone levels in Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx), the Megalopolis Environmental Commission (Came) announced late Wednesday, May 4, that Phase I of the ozone contingency plan would be suspended for Thursday, May 5. As of 10 p.m. Wednesday,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Running water service in parts of both Mexico City and the State of Mexico (Edoméx) will be suspended from the morning of Wednesday, April 27, through the afternoon of Friday, April 29, in order to conduct repairs along the Tláhuac branch of municipal aquaduct, Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) announced Monday, April 25. In
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As covid-19 sanitary measures continue to ease nationwide, Mexico is due to open a total of 137 archeological sites for equinox observances this year, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced Saturday, March 12. While still requiring masks and other sanitary precautions, the INAH said in a press release that it is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICVO STRAFF Echoing Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (AMLO) comments on Friday, March 4, that “those who oppose the government of (Russian President Vladimir) Pütin’s invasion into Ukraine are only doing so because they are corrupt conservatives,” a youth group affiliated with AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party in the central State of Mexico
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