XINHUA Mexican authorities are investigating the murder of 12 men whose bodies were found on the night of Sunday, Jan. 17, on a rural road in the municipality of Las Choapas, in the eastern state of Veracruz, police said. Veracruz’s secretary of public security said Monday, Jan. 17, on Twitter that the police have established checkpoints and patrols, and are
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A shootout in Mexico City’s upscale Miguel Hidalgo Precinct on Friday, Jan. 15, left five dead, according to capital police reports. The attack, which police said was probably gang-related, took place at the Miguel Hidalgo town hall, located close to the city’s Chapultepec Park and the former presidential palace of Los Pinos. When police
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Death Toll
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By KELIN DILLON In an interview with El Universal, Érika Guevara Rosas, director of Amnesty International (AI) in the Americas, admonished Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for his repeated flippance on Mexico’s widespread gender violence problem. “Mexico occupies one of the first places in the world in the number of femicides, of disappearances of girls and adolescents with pregnancies
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Finding a Way Out
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Mexico Gets Whacked
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XINHUA Six people were killed in a series of shootouts on the night of Wednesday in small border towns between Mexico’s central state of Michoacán and neighboring Jalisco, local police reported Thursday, Dec, 3. The Michoacan Public Security Secretariat said via Twitter that law enforcement agencies found six bodies when they were responding to reports of gunfire in the towns
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Missing Mexican Instagram model Adriana Murrieta Trevino, who was found in Guadalajara, Jalisco, on Monday, Nov. 2, apparently died of strangulation, police reported over the weekend. Murrieta Trevino, 29, was first reported missing by her family on Sunday, Nov. 2, after flying into Guadalajara, Jalisco, from the city of Culiacan, Sinaloa. She was a
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