The Numbers Game in Murder Statistics
It looks as though leftist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial “hugs, not bullets” policy is not working too well
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Michoacán’s Pueblos Unidos: Empowered Farmers or Vigilante Terrorists?
By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — During the last two weeks, the country has faced a serious security crisis, after several violent incidents took place across cities located in the states of Baja California, Chihuahua and Guanajuato, where different organized crime groups directly attacked civilians and set fires to dozens of businesses and private vehicles. The aforementioned resulted, in the first
Read moreMichoacán: Latin America’s New Deadliest Region
By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — During the last decade, the state of Michoacán, located in central Mexico, has been a constant topic in the news’ headlines around the world due to the cartel violence that has exacerbated in this region. This is so much so that Michoacán has been positioned as the Mexican state with the highest murder rate in
Read moreMichoacán’s Forest Fires: Guacamole’s Sour Aftertaste
By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The natural wealth of Mexico makes it a mega-diverse country, with nearly 200,000 species, equivalent to 10 percent of the total flora and fauna that exists on the planet. Of those species, 7,472 are endemic to Mexico. But despite the foregoing, the sustainable management of Mexico’s biodiversity is currently at risk due to the overexploitation of
Read moreEaster Celebrations in Michoacán: Beauty Beyond Chaos
By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Two years after the start of the covid-19 pandemic, social life in Mexico is finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. The current case count, according to official sources, has decreased significantly, allowing, among other things, the reopening of spaces for tourism and cultural activities. Work places and schools in the
Read moreCartels Kidnap in Mexico, Collect Ransom in Colombia
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In a new twist on transnational organized crime, Mexican authorities have discovered that at least one cartel group is now kidnapping people in Mexico and collecting ransom payments in Colombia. Mexico’s Security and Citizen Protection Secretariat (SSPC) reported Monday, Feb. 28, that this modus operandi has been used in at least four alleged kidnappings
Read moreDelays in Michoacán Teachers’ Salaries Generate Millions in Losses
By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A few days into the recently initiated school year in Mexico, teachers ascribed to Section 18 of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) union in the central western state of Michoacan are alleging serious irregularities and debts in their members’ salary payments over the last month. According to the union group, the administration
Read moreWitnessing ‘Un Horrór Norteamericano’ from Mexico
By MATT SEDDON Like everyone else, I watched the terrible and tragic killings in El Paso and Dayton on Saturday, Aug. 3, and Sunday, Aug. 4, with horror and deep sadness. As an U.S. citizen, I felt profound loss and empathy for the victims and their families, as well as frustration, helplessness and despair as mass shootings, which we Americans
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