Guillermo Torres won the mayoralty of Churumuco, Michoacan in the 2021 elections, championed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), although months later he resigned from that political institute to join the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), founded by the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. On Friday, March 29, in Morelia, Michoacán, Guillermo Torres Rojas, […]
The regional commissioner of Pátzcuaro and her two bodyguards were beheaded and burned
PATZCUARO, MICHOACAN.- The police reports indicate that they took the victims out of the patrol car, then beheaded them and burned the police vehicle. The regional commissioner of Pátzcuaro and two female bodyguards are executed and beheaded. Commissioner Cristal García Hurtado, assigned to the Public Security Region in Pátzcuaro, as well as two of her […]
Three civilians were killed by a roadway bomb in Michoacán
Three farmers were killed on Tuesday, March 5th, by a bomb planted in a dirt road in the cartel-dominated western Mexico state of Michoacan. A state security official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said the blast occurred in the rural township of Tumbiscatio. Graphic photos of the scene posted on social […]
Ambassador Ken Salazar says avocados grown in illegal orchards should not be exported to the U.S.
Mexican avocados grown on illegal orchards should not be exported to the United States, the largest importer of the popular staple used in guacamole, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico said Monday. In a visit to Michoacan, Mexico’s main avocado-producing state, U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar said there should be consequences if avocados were determined to be grown in […]
Mexican priests say they negotiated for a possible peace accord with drug cartel leaders
Four Roman Catholic bishops met with Mexican drug cartel bosses in a bid to negotiate a possible peace accord, one of the bishops said, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday he approves of such talks. The revelation by Bishop of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, José de Jesús González Hernández, in remarks at a public appearance, illustrates […]