Better US-Mexico Border Cooperation Urgently Needed
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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Birth of Modern Mexico
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Over the weekend, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) paid a visit to the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, home of infamous drug lord and founder of the Sinaloa Cartel Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, currently in a U.S. high-security prison on 17 counts of homicide, drug trafficking, conspiracy, organized crime against health, money laundering, homicide and
Read moreSomeone Murdered Every 15 Minutes in Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Although the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to claim that his government has reduced the trend of intentional homicides nationwide, in just three days this week, a new murder was reported every 15 minutes. On Tuesday, May 24, Mexico registered the second-highest record of homicides in the president’s entire
Read moreHomicides on Rise, Contrary to Mexican Government’s Claims
By KELIN DILLON Though Mexico’s Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection may have detailed the country’s year-to-year homicide rate reduction during a press conference on Monday, May 24, continued reports of rampant violence throughout the country have put the veracity of the government’s purported lower rates into question. According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Security System
Read moreMexican Women’s Right Worker Shot Dead in Veracruz
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Longtime Mexican human rights worker and legal defender against the mounting incidence of femicide Cecilia Monzón was shot dead in Puebla on Saturday, May 21. The attack occurred around 10 a.m., in front of Puebla’s La Riviera subdivision According to eyewitness and police reports, Monzón was ambushed in her car by two men on
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Psychosis in Mexico
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Femicides in Mexico
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Before AMLO and After AMLO
Read moreCement Plant Brawl Results in Eight Deaths
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A confrontation between workers at a Cruz Azul cement plant in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo on Wednesday, April 27, left at least eight people dead and 11 others injured, according to preliminary reports from local officials. The brawl broke out in the early morning Wednesday at the Tula, Hidalgo, plant, about 100
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