By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Javier Barajas Piña, a member of the Commission for the Search for Disappeared Persons in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, was assassinated on Sunday, May 30, authorities reported the following day. No details of the shooting were released, nor were any suspects detained, according to Guanajuato police. “The commission members express our deep
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Mexico’s Upcoming June 6 Elections
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Five former U.S. ambassadors offer advise on what to do next
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s June 6 midterm elections will be the largest in the nation’s history; they will also be its most deadliest. According to a report from the private-sector monitoring firm Integralia Consultores published in El Financiero newspaper on Tuesday, May 11, since the start of the current electoral process in September 2019 through April of this
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By KELIN DILLON Reports coming from the Mexican state of Jalisco say that infamous drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho,” has built his own hospital in the region in an unusual gesture of goodwill for the increasingly violent crime boss, and also in an apparent attempt to help combat the kidney disease he apparently suffers from.
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The Mexican Government Investigates Gun Violence
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By KELIN DILLON Among the reported 61 assassinated political actors since Mexico’s midterm electoral process began in September 2020 were 18 candidates up for government seats this June, reported consulting firm Etellekt’s Indicator of Political Violence in Mexico. Most recently, Ivonne Gallegos Carreño, who was candidate for the municipal presidency of Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, was murdered Saturday, March 20,
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s beginning of 2021 has started off on a violent, deadly foot. according to figures from the organization Causa en Común (Cause in Common), which registered 963 victims of atrocity in the country already this year. Cause in Common defines an atrocity as any intentional use of force to cause death, laceration or extreme mistreatment and provocation
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A Fertile Soil in Times of Covid
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF For the second year in a row — and the second in Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) first two years of his six-year term — Mexico has registered more violent deaths than during any previous administration. According to official figures released in a report Thursday, Jan. 21, by the government’s own Executive
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