By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The body of Debanhi Escobar, a teenage girl from the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León who went missing on April 8 after having been left on the side of the road by a taxi driver late at night, was found on Thursday, April 21, inside a cistern tank at a cheap hotel in
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Mexico in the Stranglehold
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to data presented by the government’s Security and Citizen Protection Secretariat (SSPC) on Wednesday, April 20, Mexico had more registered murders in March than in any other month so far this year. “In March, homicides increased by 17.5 percent compared to the previous four months,” SSPC Secretary Roda Icela Rodríguez said during her
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Mexico’s Surging Murder Rates
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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 Shots were reportedly fired inside Terminal 3 of Cancun’s International Airport on Monday, March 28. The shots, apparently fired by a single assailant based on footage on social media, led to panic as dozens of people ran out of the terminal building, trampling others in the mayhem. Local police and members of Mexico’s National
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF During the early hours of Tuesday, March 15, the alleged leader of Mexico’s Northwest Cartel, Juan Gerardo Trevino, alias “El Huevo,” was handed over to U.S. authorities at the Tijuana International Airport, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) reported. Without leaving the airport facilities, El Huevo was handed over to U.S. agents via the binational
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Shots were fired just outside the U.S. consulate compound in the northern border town of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, late Sunday, March 13, immediately following the arrest of the high-ranking drug cartel leader, Juan Gerardo Trevino, alias “El Huevo,” authorities reported. No embassy personnel were reported wounded. The consulate is located next to a Mexican
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A British real estate agent was shot dead in the presence of his 14-year-old daughter in the Mexican tourist beach town Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, on the morning of Saturday, March 12. Chris Cleave, 54, a longtime Mexico resident, was attacked by two assailants on a motorcycle who opened fire on him and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Miguel Barbosa, the governor of the central Mexican state of Puebla, dismissed the mass murder of nine people in the town of Atlixco on Wednesday, March 10, since, in his words, “they were not from the state, and besides, they were drug traffickers.” Barbosa, a member of President Andrés Manuel López Obradro’s (AMLO) leftist
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