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Mexican federal investigators arrested the former top police commander in the state of Puebla for allegedly orchestrating the arrest and torture of a journalist. The reporter exposed a network of pedophiles made up of powerful politicians and businessmen. The list included the former governor of that state. This week, police officers in Veracruz served a federal arrest warrant against Hugo Adolfo Karam Beltran, the former Director of the Judicial Police in Puebla. Investigators accused him of targeting, arresting, and torturing a journalist. Authorities took Karam before a Mexican federal judge in the state of Quintana Roo who formally charged him...

MEXICO CITY, Oct 31 (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and over a dozen were injured when a pipeline of state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) exploded in the central Mexican state of Puebla after it was breached by suspected fuel thieves, authorities said on Sunday. Alerted to a gas leak, the Puebla state government said it had averted a higher death toll by evacuating residents from the site in the San Pablo Xochimehuacan municipality before three explosions occurred, wrecking between 30 and 50 homes.... some 1,400 rescue workers had been mobilized....

The enormous sinkhole in Puebla State, southeastern Mexico, has grown to 110 m (360 feet) in diameter as of Monday, June 7, 2021, prompting authorities to widen the security perimeter. The hole has already destroyed a nearby house's bedroom and part of a wall and is threatening to swallow the entire structure as continues to expand. The sinkhole appeared in Santa María Zacatepec, in the town of Juan C. Bonilla, and is confirmed to be 9 m (30 feet) deep. It measured 80 m (262 feet) in diameter on May 29 and has grown rapidly ever since. As of Monday,...

The new governor of the Mexican state of Puebla and her politician husband were killed Monday in a helicopter crash in central Mexico, according to the head of their political party. Puebla governor Martha Erika Alonso and her husband Senator Rafael Moreno Valle died in the crash, as did the pilot, co-pilot and a fifth passenger, according to Public Security and Civil Protection Secretary Alfonso Durazo. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador also confirmed the deaths on Twitter Monday evening. He offered his condolences to the victims' families and vowed a transparent investigation into the cause of the Christmas eve crash....

Locked in an embrace, the mummified remains may end a 55-year mystery of what happened to climbers buried in an avalanche on Mexico's highest mountain. And their clinch shows how they must have huddled together against the cold, hoping against hope for rescue. An expedition in the central state of Puebla to rescue the two bodies was launched when a climber attempting to reach the top of Pico de Orizaba - which at 18,405ft is Mexico's highest peak - slipped and spotting a desiccated head and arm sticking from the snow. As two members of the expedition began to dig...