By MARK LORENZANA The Black Hawk helicopter of Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) that left 14 sailors dead after crashing in Los Mochis in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa on Friday, July 15, was the sixth helicopter to have figured in a crash under the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) since 2019. According to
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Danzón, a type of synchronized, stylized ballroom dance with emphatic pauses and a definitive romantic air performed to slow Latin rhythms, is the official musical genre and dance of Cuba, rooted in colonial times and fused from a blend of habanera two-step, European waltz and African cadence. But in Mexico, it has been a vital part of
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO With the shooting death of Noé Ornelas Sanguino, mayor of the town of Villa Jiménez, in the northwestern Mexican state of Michoacán, whose body was found on an abandoned stretch of highway on Monday, June 27, there have been at least 59 mayors and municipal alderman murdered so far under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López
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By KELIN DILLON Reports of extortion have reached record highs in Mexico this year under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), with figures from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP) revealing shortages across the country in products like produce and poultry have resulted in price gouging and extortion nationwide, adding to Mexico’s widespread
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO After a “corrida” of on-again-off-again legal bouts over whether to allow bullfighting to continue to be practiced in Mexico, the nation’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) on Wednesday, June 15, ruled that, while it condemned the sport as inhumane to animals, it would not ban it. Both bullfighting and cockfighting, considered traditional sports in Mexico, “inflict unnecessary,
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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to defend his unilateral decision earlier this month to hire 500 Cuban doctors at higher salaries than those paid to their Mexican counterparts, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the country already has enough physicians without having to import more. According to the WHO,
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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 Just four days after the body of Sinaloa website news reporter Luis Enrique Ramírez Ramos was discovered on a dirt road in Culiacán, two more Mexican journalists were killed on Monday, May 9, in the coastal town of Cosoleacaque, Veracruz. Reporters Yesenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera, both from the news portal
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Well, whatever you might say about the children of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), you cannot say that they are not resourceful. AMLO’s eldest son, José Ramón López Beltrán, made international headlines in January when it was revealed that he had been living in multimillion-dollar home in Houston that just happen to belong to
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