By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least 10 people were detained by authorities on Monday, March 7, in connection with their involvement in a brawl between opposing team fans at a soccer match in Queretaro over the weekend, according to that state’s Prosecutor’s Office. The detainees, all men, were arrested for alleged acts of violence during the Querétaro versus
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least 26 people were injured on Saturday, March 5, when clashes between fans from opposing teams broke out in a soccer stadium in the central Mexican city of Querétaro. According to local authorities, at least 26 people were injured during the brawl, two of them critically. Querétaro Governor Mauricio Kuri, who visited some
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Out of the frying pan, into the fire. That’s how Michoacán native Omar Aviña said he sees his return to his home state after he and his fiancée, Ukrainian Iryna Volkova, were evacuated by the Mexican government from Romania on Friday, March 4, after fleeing the war in Kiev. The couple were among the
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By KELIN DILLON Throughout the first three years of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, more than 63,310 people in Mexico have been displaced from their homes due to violence across the country, said the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH) on Sunday, Feb. 27. “Despite the fact that this is preliminary
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what constituted Mexico’s largest mass murder of the year so far, an estimated 17 people were taken hostage during a wake at a funeral home in San José de Gracia, Michoacán, a town on the border with Jalisco, and shot dead in the outside street. The mass execution, which was videotaped by witnesses, was
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON Throughout a 48-hour period at the beginning of the week of Feb. 14, organized crime groups and cartels operating out of Mexico’s Sierra Madre del Sur mountain range in the Michoacán region executed 27 murders in typically violent narco-style, demonstrating the clear weaponry strength of the region’s criminal organizations and affecting the area’s important international avocado trade.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to Mexican government statistics, in the first month and a half of 2022, there were at least 33 mass murders in the country, with more than 147 victims. Most of the murders — almost all of which have been linked to organized crime groups — took place in six states where warring drug
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OPINION By JUAN DE JESÚS BREEN Once again the U.S.-based Cato Institute thinktank — for the seventh year in a row — has published its yearly Human Freedom Index, known to political science students as the HFI. The index measures 165 countries on 12 freedoms: rule of law, security and safety, movement, religion, civil society, expression, relationships, government size, legal
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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