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What You Need to Know: On Saturday night, Mayoral candidate for the city of Puebla, Jaime González Pérez, was killed in front of his wife and child by multiple armed assailants.  Pérez, who joined the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) Party in 2023 was killed almost exactly a month after Miguel Zavala, Morena’s mayoral candidate for Maravatio city in Michoacán state, was...

Eduardo Ramirez Tiburcio, also known as "El Chori," leader of La Union Tepito, has been arrested and was announced the night of Monday, March 18th, by Secretary of Citizen Security of Mexico City (SSC-CDMX), Pablo Vázquez Camacho. Tiburcio was found and arrested near Ajusco, where he was hiding. Cash, a firearm, and narcotics, were discovered on him at the time....

Mexican law enforcement within the city of Jalisco have found what was described as a bulletproof SUV with five bodies stacked on top of each other on Wednesday, March 20th. The vehicle was discovered on a road in Villa de Corona, south of Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco State. One individual had made an emergency call on Tuesday, March 19th,...

As this publication reported yesterday, the Supreme Court allowed a stay on Texas' S.B. 4 which criminalizes as a state crime, crossing the Texas border illegally. This meant that the Supreme Court would allow Texas to enforce this state law and rejected a Biden Administration appeal to override the law until the case could be heard in detail by...

A Chair Arrested: A key leader of the transnational crime gang MS-13’s Salvadoran branch was arrested in Mexico on Tuesday, marking a massive blow to the gang’s leadership. Héctor Oswaldo González Pérez, also known as “Cruel de Western,” was arrested in a joint operation with Mexican authorities and the Salvadoran National Police. The Salvadoran Minister of Justice and Public Security, Gustavo...