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On Wednesday, Mexico's Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on abortion, meaning that the procedure will no longer be punished because it is unconstitutional and infringes on women's fundamental rights. The federal public health service and all federal health organizations are legally bound to provide abortion assistance to anyone who requests it under unanimous decision made by 11 judges. The decision was one that the Information Group for Chosen Reproduction, or GIRE, as it is known by its Spanish initials, and other human rights organisations had been supporting.

According to a security analyst, five young Mexican men who were thought to have been kidnapped and killed by the cartel in Jalisco were likely lured to their deaths by the prospect of serving as a security guard. According to El Universal, David Saucedo Torres, a security analyst, said that the CNJG has developed a network of call centers. 'A number of training and recruitment centers have sprouted in the last two years or so in several regions surrounding Lagos de Moreno,' he said. They have made Lagos de Moreno a vital operation site, particularly for recruiting and training batsmen.' The five young people who were kidnapped appear to have been taken in some sort of education by Jalisco Cartel, which conducts assessments for the new recruits, obstructing them from doing assassinations.'

The mayor of Mexico City has accused the attorney general of Morelos of colluding with a murder perpetrator to cover up the murder of a woman who was injured on a road last week. Rautel Aguillo turned himself in to authorities in Nuevo León, the northeastern Mexican state. Two bicyclists in Ariadna Lopez, a mother of a five-year-old boy whose lifeless body was discovered in Tepoztlán, 57 miles south of Mexico City, are being charged with the businessman.

According to a recent Mexican government survey, an increasing number of Americans are crossing the southern border to live in Mexico. According to the study, over 8,000 American citizens were granted provisional resident visas to live in Mexico during the first nine months of 2022, an 85% increase over the same period in 2019. Through the first three quarters of the year, nearly 5,500 Americans were granted permanent residence status.

During Mexico City's second earthquake this week, the quake struck early this morning, killing a woman who collapsed and struck her head as people fled their homes. The woman staggered on the stairs of her house in the Doctores neighborhood as earthquake sirens rang out and buildings began to shake, according to the Mexico City Government. After the earthquake, a man in the south of the capital had also suffered a deadly heart attack. The quake struck at a depth of 20.7 kilometers (12.9 miles) on Monday, which was both smaller and deeper than the previous one. Around 1.16 a.m. local time (6.16 GMT) today's earthquake struck Michoacan, not far from Monday's epicenter. There were no immediate reports of serious injury in Michoacan or the immediate regions, according to officials. Residents wait outside their homes after the earthquake this morning, along with an evacuated woman and a map showing the quake.

On Monday, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake shook Mexico's central Pacific coast, sparking an earthquake warning in the capital. According to USGS, the quake struck 29 miles south-southeast of La Placita de Morelos, Mexico's state of Michoacan, and was at a depth of 6.2 miles. According to the United States Geological Survey, there were no immediate reports of damage from the earthquake that struck at 1.05 p.m. local time. This comes exactly five years to the day after a tremor killed 370 people in the same area.