By KELIN DILLON Only weeks after hactivist group Guacamaya revealed to the public that 72 percent of Mexico is under control of organized crime groups, Mexico experienced its most violent month of the year yet, registering 2,481 intentional homicides throughout Oct. 2022. A total of 92 intentional murders were committed on Monday, Oct. 31 alone, says information publicized by Mexico’s
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Based on the Guacamaya Leaks — a collection of over 4 million confidential Mexican government documents that were released in early October by a group of national hackers exposing how the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been monitoring journalists using Israeli Pegasus spyware and how the military under his regime sold arms to
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By MARK LORENZANA Ricardo Mejía Berdeja, Mexican Undersecretary of Public Security, announced on Wednesday, Oct. 13, that César Augusto “N,” alias El Gafe — the alleged leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) involved in the shooting at a shopping center in Zapopan, Jalisco, on the afternoon of Oct. 2 — was arrested. In a press conference, Mejía Berdeja explained that El
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Conrado Mendoza Almeda, the mayor of San Miguel Totolapan in Mexico’s coastal state of Guerrero, and 17 other people were killed late Wednesday, Oct. 5, in an armed attack on the town’s municipal palace. The town is located in the state’s extremely violent Tierra Caliente region, currently under a turf war between opposing drug cartel groups. Also
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OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Down Mexico way, a recent Reforma newspaper story is causing a lot of commotion and major concern. The original story was published in Spanish, but Pulse News Mexico published an analysis in English. It’s bad news, to say the least. As Pulse News Mexico’s Mark Lorenzana wrote: “The U.S. government has evidence that allegedly links members
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report released by international organization Global Witness, Mexico was the country with the most murdered environmental activists in 2021, when the nation bore witness to 54 documented environmentalist deaths. Mexico leads the global pack of environmentalist murders by a large margin, with Colombia – the second most deadly country for environmentalists in 2021
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By KELIN DILLON Culpable homicides against women have been rising in Mexico across the course of 2022’s summer, reaching new year-over-year levels of violence when compared to data from June, July and August of 2021. In Mexico, culpable homicide means that a death was caused by accident or without intent, and is differentiated from femicides and intentional homicides in that
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Anyone who doubts Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) dictatorial tendencies need only take a look at his authoritarian declarations from Friday, Sept. 23. Having come up against a senatorial blockade to his devious plan to keep the nation’s military in charge of patrolling the streets through 2028 (part of a bigger plot to militarize
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By MARK LORENZANA Veteran Mexican-American journalist Jorge Ramos gave Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) all he could handle on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 22, during AMLO’s daily press conference. Ramos, known for his no-nonsense approach when dealing with López Obrador during his news conferences, told the Mexican president point-blank that his administration can now lay claim to
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