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Security
Criminals using fake business accounts on WhatsApp are stealing from tourists by posing as the Hotel Krystal Puerto Vallarta, complete with forged confirmation documents and high-pressure sales tactics.
Narco
Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla acknowledged that organized crime cells have embedded themselves inside municipal police forces across Michoacán and called for removing local police authority entirely through a constitutional reform.
Security
Criminals using fake business accounts on WhatsApp are stealing from tourists by posing as the Hotel Krystal Puerto Vallarta, complete with forged confirmation documents and high-pressure sales tactics.
Sinaloa
The state prosecutor opened three homicide investigations Sunday. Three bodies found on a dirt road in El Fuerte. Two dead in Culiacan. One in Mazatlan.
Baja California Sur
A fight inside La Terraza bar escalated into a shooting early Sunday. Three dead. One hospitalized. The bar is in a residential neighborhood near the tourist zone.
Quintana Roo
The cell is linked to extortion, armed attacks on businesses, and at least two homicides. Police seized a Glock exclusive to the Mexican Armed Forces.
Sheinbaum
Claudia Sheinbaum stood at the podium during her morning press conference and did something Mexican presidents rarely do. She named the United States Department of Justice directly as the cause.
Mexico
In her most direct public appeal to date, Sheinbaum called on the Biden administration to close the gun show loophole and enforce existing laws against straw purchases, according to remarks published.
Politics
The former Michoacán governor now serving as chief of the Presidency Office publicly attributed the drug war to Calderón's federal decision, not the states'.
Puebla
Every time a public bus completes a route through the streets of Puebla, the driver forks over 10 to 15 pesos to a young man on the corner. Do that dozens of times a day, and the math adds up to 1,500 pesos a month in protection payments.
Mexico Safety
Your phone buzzes before you even clear customs at Mexico City airport. Three texts from your mom, a WhatsApp from your brother, a voice note from your college roommate.
Sinaloa
Six people were murdered across three Sinaloa municipalities in a single day this week, with state prosecutors opening six homicide cases and logging 10 stolen vehicle reports for Monday alone.