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 KELIN DILLON Power vacuums across Mexican states created by June 6’s midterm elections have caused a dramatic spike in lethal violence throughout the country, with over 57 dead in the past few weeks throughout the course of five massacres. Six people died during a riot in a prison in Villahermosa, Tabasco, followed by seven shot dead by gunmen in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Irving Barrios, the chief prosecutor in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, said Tuesday, June 22, that the bloody massacre that left at least 19 people dead in the border town of Reynosa over the weekend was the result of political infighting between rival factions of the Gulf Cartel. Speaking in an interview on
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XINHUA At least 14 people died in armed attacks in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, on Saturday, June 19, local authorities said in a statement. The attacks took place in early Saturday afternoon in different districts of the city, said Tamaulipas authorities, adding that it remains unclear if the victims were targeted or randomly shot. On Sunday, June
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Three months after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) handed over the administration of the Reynosa and Matamoros customs to the military, corruption has worsened with the complicity of the National Guard (GN), key private-sector representatives in Tamaulipas said Friday, June 11. “The military turned out to be a bad or worse than
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By KELIN DILLON Following U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s visit to Mexico, where she tackled issues like labor reform, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh launched a second complaint against Mexico for its alleged violation of workers’ rights under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The officials allege Mexico has denied collective bargaining and free
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By KELIN DILLON With Mexico’s midterm elections fast approaching on Sunday, June 6, instances of violence against politicians has increased in turn, with the shooting of four candidates, the kidnapping of one election hopeful and the torture and execution of a political operator all happening with just days left to go before the vote. Just last week, Etellekt Consultancy revealed
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By KELIN DILLON At the request of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR), a federal judge ordered the issuing of an arrest warrant against the National Action Party (PAN) governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, for alleged actions of organized crime and money laundering. Cabeza de Vaca has been the center of Mexican political news over the past
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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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