By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just two days after cartel violence wreaked mayhem in Mexico’s central states of Jalisco and Guanajuato, similar attacks gripped the country’s border city of Ciudad Juárez late Thursday, Aug. 11, leaving at least 11 people dead and six arrested, and Tijuana, on Friday, Aug. 12. Violence was also reported in the northern border towns of Mexicali, Rosarito
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite a strong military presence sent by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) late last year to curb mounting violence in that state, Michoacán has registered at least 694 murders so far this year, according to official figures. The special operations and the incursion of thousands of soldiers and National Guardsmen into Michoacán
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what constituted Mexico’s largest mass murder of the year so far, an estimated 17 people were taken hostage during a wake at a funeral home in San José de Gracia, Michoacán, a town on the border with Jalisco, and shot dead in the outside street. The mass execution, which was videotaped by witnesses, was
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Recent headlines and heart-wrenching images depict a tragic story of innocent families desperately trying to escape a chaotic situation that has transformed their homeland into of a disputed territory rife with war and unchecked violence where no government or international organizations dare to enter. But this time, the grim scenario is not playing out
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The central western Mexican state of Michoacán is at war. For now, an eerie calm prevails, but the state’s 4.7 million residents know full well that that tenuous ceasefire can be broken at any moment Michoacán is ground zero for a turf war between the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), formerly known as the Zetas, and
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In his self-aggrandizing address to the nation on Thursday, July 1, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said that the country’s fight against organized crime was “well in hand” and that there were only three cartels currently operating in Mexico. That, it seems, is news to the cartels. In fact, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement
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