By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Two more Mexican journalists covering the country’s drug cartels and political corruption — photojournalist Margarito Martínez Esquivel and reporter José Luis Gamboa — were killed in the space of just one week for doing their jobs, adding to a total of at least 145 murdered reporters in the country in the last two decades
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By JESSICA GUERRERO Mexico’s independent life as a republic began in 1821, 200 years ago. But the first hundred years of the country’s autonomy were dizzying and plagued with numerous internal conflicts. These events and circumstances unleashed the Mexican Revolution that broke out in 1910, and consisted of a civil war between several regional revolutionary forces against the authoritarian regime of
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By KELIN DILLON After his arrest on Dec. 22, the secretary of Mexico’s Senate Political Coordination Board (Jucopo), José Manuel del Río Virgen, broke his silence for the first time since his imprisonment in Pacho Viejo prison in a Monday, Jan. 3, phone call with Senator Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar, declaring his innocence against the allegations that he ordered the murder
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XINHUA A U.S.-bound migrant caravan that has been traveling on foot through Mexico for more than a month continued its slow trek over the weekend through the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, with far fewer people than it started out with. Comprising between 4,000 to 5,000 mostly Central American and Haitian migrants at one point, by Friday, Nov. 26, it
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XINHUA A new U.S.-bound caravan of about 2,500 migrants, mostly from Central America and Haiti, departed Thursday, Nov. 18, from the southern Mexican town of Tapachula, Chiapas, on the border with Guatemala. After months of waiting in Tapachula for the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance to resolve their immigration procedures, the contingent set out once again for the U.S. border,
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XINHUA At least three migrants were burned to death and about 20 others were injured in a fiery road crash early Wednesday, Oct. 6, in Mexico’s gulf coast state of Veracruz, the National Immigration Institute (INM) said. Among the victims were Honduran, Haitian and Guatemalan migrants, the INM said. A truck carrying the migrants lost control, crashed into a retaining
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — One aspect of the covid-19 pandemic and its subsequent global economic that has universal impacted countries around the world is worker desperation. Here in Mexico, unemployment and underemployment have skyrocketed, and more than a million pay-rolled workers lost their job in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. And to make matters worse, now unscrupulous
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By KELIN DILLON As the Mexican government continues its quest to give state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) majority control over the nation’s energy market, it has now closed a number of privately owned terminals used to import fuel across the country. In the past month and a half alone, three terminals in Tuxpan, Puebla and Hermosillo were closed by
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Each September, the people of Mexico pay homage to a group of six military school boys known as the nation’s Niños Héroes (Children Heroes). Although there is to this day much debate as to the accuracy of their tragic tale, their fateful sacrifice at Chapultepec Castle is regarded as an example of national pride and uncompromised patriotic
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) on Tuesday, Sept. 7, voted unanimously to decriminalize abortion, making the country the most populous in Latin America to permit the procedure. In a landmark decision for the world’s second-largesst predominantly Catholic nation, the SCJN said that the prohibition of abortion violates women’s right to decide the fate of their
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