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Prison Breaks Have Increased under López Obrador
In the fray, seven other inmates were killed by the group that organized the escape
Read moreFormer US Envoy Says AMLO’s Political Noise Clouds Relationship
By KELIN DILLON In a new interview conducted by Mexican daily newspaper El Financiero, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Roberta S. Jacobson characterized the presently contentious relationship between Mexico and the United States as one “like a family,” while highlighting Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) propensity toward making “noise” around the neighboring trade partners’ relations. According to Jacobson,
Read moreMexico, the Deadliest Latin American Country for Children
By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán —The constant climate of extreme violence in which Mexico has lived since the start of the so-called drug war in 2006 has left a huge red stain in the modern history of the country. From 2006 to 2021 alone, it is estimated that 350,000 people were killed in the country because of drug wars and power
Read moreCriminal Arrest in Nuevo Laredo Prompts Violence, Citywide Closures
By KELIN DILLON A series of violent attacks purportedly perpetrated by local criminal groups in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, during the early morning of Monday, Nov. 28, caused numerous disruptions to the daily lives of the Mexican border city’s population – including the closure of Nuevo Laredo’s U.S. embassy, a strike by public transportation workers and the partial suspension of its
Read moreMexican National Guard Chief in Zacatecas Killed
PULSE NEWS MEXICO General José Silvestre Urzúa, chief coordinator of the National Guard (GN) in the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas, was shot to death on Thursday, Nov. 24, during a confrontation with alleged criminal gangs in the municipality of Pinos, near the Zacatecas border with the state of San Luis Potosí. Silvestre Urzúa and his men were attacked by
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Mexico’s Endless Crime Wave
Read moreMexican Democracy in Suspension
By ENRIQUE KRAUZE It was not through some miracle, but rather because thanks to the efforts and sacrifices of generations, that Mexico has, successively, evolved as a theocratic, monarchical, viceroyalty, caudillism, dictatorial, revolutionary, revolutionary-institutional, and, finally today, a democratic state. Very soon, it may cease to be just that. It is sad, but perhaps understandable, that Mexico’s new generations are
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Mexico’s Criminal-Based Contamination
Read moreGun Violence Kills Two Kids in Mexico per Day
By KELIN DILLON According to new data released by Mexico’s National System of Public Security (SNSP), there were a total of 627 children murdered by gun violence in Mexico between January and September 2022, an average of two minor deaths per day and an approximately 7 percent higher homicide rate than experienced during the same time period the year previous.
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