XINHUA Most of the weapons seized by authorities in Mexico over the last two years were manufactured in the United States, according to a report released Monday, Jan. 31, by the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE). Mexican security forces seized 18,091 U.S.-made weapons between Jan. 1, 2020, and Nov. 18, 2021, an average of 812 guns or other firearms a month,
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OPINION By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE It is a question that is becoming more and more relavent among those considering traveling to Mexico for a vacation: Are tourists in danger from cartel violence at Mexican beach resorts? The answer is, yes and no, but mostly no. A recent Washington Post story, titled “Tourist Drug Demand Is Bringing Cartel Violence to
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Mexico’s Graveyard of Journalists
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Mexico Welcomes Foreign Investors
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Last year was the most violence in Mexican history for women, with 1,040 victims of femicide in the country, the highest figure since this high-impact crime began to be reported in official statistics in 2015. This means that, on average, two women were killed each day because of their gender; most of them in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Two Canadian tourists were shot dead on Friday, Jan. 21, in the Mexican resort town of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, inside their Xcaret Hotel. Additionally, another Canadian tourist was wounded when an unidentified man, apparently staying at that same hotel, opened fire in the hotel lobby after having a verbal altercation with the
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By KELIN DILLON In a new filing with the Organization of American States (OAS), Mexico’s three-party Va por México alliance consisting of the National Action Party (PAN), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has accused Mexican organized crime of interfering with the nation’s 2021 electoral process through ballot box stuffing, violence and intimidation,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The bodies of 10 murdered people were found in front of Zacatecas Governor David Monreal’s office on Thursday, Jan. 6. The bodies of eight men and two women were found stuffed inside a flatbed pickup truck left before dawn near a Christmas tree in the main plaza of the state capital. On Friday, Jan.
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said Tuesday, Dec. 14, that it is the responsibility of both Mexico and the United States to protest migrants by creating the conditions for economic and social development in Central America. Speaking during an interview with the Mexican daily newspaper El Universal and just 100 days into his
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In an op-ed piece published in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday, Dec. 4, the Americas director of the New York-based nonprofit Human Rights Watch (HRW), José Miguel Vivanco, warned the United States to not be complacent about the mounting violations of basic human rights being compiled by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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