AMLO and US Clash Over Human Rights Report
The U.S. State Department’s 2023 Annual Report on Human Rights highlighted Mexico’s issues with impunity, violence and attacks on journalists and the federal judiciary
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The Darkest Side of North Korea’s Brutal Darkness
Nearly 70 percent of the prisoners in the kwanliso are female, and, not surprisingly, more than 80 percent of North Korean defectors are girls and women
Read moreEbrard Wants to Extradite Zerón from Israel over Ayotzinapa Case
By KELIN DILLON Following the apprehension of former Mexican Federal Attorney General (FGR) Jesús Murillo Karam on Friday, Aug. 19, for his purported role in covering up the still-unsolved disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students in 2014, Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard announced his intention to go after the former head of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) Tomás Zerón
Read moreAlleged Juárez Attackers Receive Two Years of Preventative Detention
By KELIN DILLON According to reports from Sunday, Aug. 14, five men arrested for involvement in Thursday’s lethal attack on Ciudad Juárez, in which at least 11 people were killed, were sentenced to preventative detention for no more than two years in prison as they continue to be investigated for the crimes of attempted homicide and damages. The accused individuals
Read moreFormer Veracruz Attorney General Detained on Torture Charges
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Jorge Winckler Ortiz, the former attorney general for the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, was arrested on Monday, July 25, in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, after being a fugitive from justice for more than two years. The arrest was carried out by members of the Mexican Army’s National Anti-kidnapping Coordination Unit and the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection,
Read moreMassacres in Mexico Keep on Rising under AMLO’s Watch
By MARK LORENZANA Six people were killed and at least eight more were injured after armed men stormed a family party in the early-morning hours of Sunday, July 10, in León, the most populous city of the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, local authorities reported. Individuals on board two motorcycles arrived, started shooting and then promptly fled the scene. Among
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Mexican Government’s Fight Against Torture
Read moreThe Night of Iguala, Unforgotten
By RICARDO CASTILLO The investigation into the disappearance and execution of 43 rural Mexican normal school students on the night of Sept. 26, 2014, is getting more tangled up as the days go by, nearly five years after the fact. Over the past week, judges have been releasing the confessed culprits, not because they are innocent, but because their cases were
Read moreThe Night that Shattered Dreams
By MAMMAD TALIBOV, Azerbaijani ambassador to Mexico
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