FGE Michoacán resolves 79 out of every 100 feminicides: Mexico Evaluates
The State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) managed to increase the effectiveness in the investigation and prosecution of the crime of femicide by up to 79 percent last year, according to an official report; it exceeded the national average by more than 60 percent. The statistics were analyzed by the civil organization, Mexico Evalúa, and it […]
Mario Riestra Piña: The leader of the PAN in Puebla and his scandals for enrichment
The leader of the PAN in Puebla, Mario Gerardo Riestra Piña, and his family were accused of alleged unexplained enrichment according to documents and testimonies that were accessed and in which a series of alleged embezzlements and money laundering by both the brothers and the mother of the PAN member were detected. Gabriel Biestro, president […]
Up to 19 thousand pesos! Everything is ready for the Judas burning contest in San Cristóbal
The San Cristóbal de Las Casas Lions Club and the Coordinator of the Spring and Peace Fair 2023 in its 153rd edition announced that registrations are open to participate in the Judas burning contest that takes place every year in the colonial city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. The 2023 Judas making and burning […]
San Cristóbal and Tuxtla with events for this first week of March
This week, in the framework of the commemoration of International Women’s Day, various cultural and health events are taking place in Chiapas to honor and make visible the work of women in different fields. The Carlos Jurado Cultural Center in Tuxtla Gutiérrez has prepared a special day dedicated to women and art. The 1st Conversation […]
PT deputy demands removal of Oaxaca’s tourism secretary for “waste of resources”
The federal deputy of the Labor Party (PT), Margarita García García, asked Governor Salomón Jara Cruz to dismiss Saymi Pineda Velasco as Secretary of Tourism for the waste of public resources and her scandalous acts of corruption in a state where there are shortages in hospitals, lack of medicines in health centers and medical equipment. […]
Oaxaca municipal police go on strike: they accuse the mayor of handing over security to the state
A new police protest broke out in this entity, now in the municipality of San Raymundo Jalpan, located 14 kilometers from the city of Oaxaca, in the Valles Centrales region, where municipal police began a work stoppage in protest of the “abusive and arrogant” attitude of the municipal president, Pablo Mendoza, whom they accused of […]
The disappearance of eight young people on the beaches of Oaxaca and the silence of three States: the opacity of crime is taking its toll on Mexico
At least eight young people disappeared at the end of February on the beaches of Oaxaca, on the Mexican Pacific. They had left Tlaxcala, in the center of the country. At the beginning of March, a vehicle with nine bodies inside was abandoned on a highway, already on the border with Puebla, 400 kilometers from […]
Mexico halts shipment of goods
On the first day of the 25 percent tariffs imposed by the United States on Mexican products, the shipment of goods was halted. Israel Delgado Vallejo, vice president of the northwest region of the National Chamber of Cargo Transportation (Canacar), commented that yesterday there was a 20 percent decrease in the movement of goods due […]
Trump’s anti-drug campaign ‘does Mexico a favor’: JD Vance
US President Donald Trump’s war against drug cartels seeks to prevent Mexico from becoming a “narco state,” US Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday during his visit to the US-Mexico border, and recalled that his government is empowered to use the Armed Forces against these organizations. Vance said that the Trump administration designated drug […]