By MARK LORENZANA Only 13 percent of Mexicans believe that the National Electoral Institute (INE) should be eliminated, 31 percent support some sort of electoral reform and 53 percent think that the INE has been doing a good job so far, according to a telephone survey conducted by Mexican daily newspaper Reforma from Wednesday, Oct. 26, to Saturday, Oct. 29.
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By MARK LORENZANA Amid the electoral reform spearheaded by deputies from the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) of Mexican President Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), which seeks to eliminate Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), the Mexican Human Rights Commission (CDNH) has labeled the INE as a “body that sabotages the will of the people,” and has claimed that “for years it
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican Formula 1 (F1) driver Sergio “Checo” Pérez took a podium finish in his home turf on Sunday, Oct. 30, finishing third at the 2022 Mexico City Grand Prix at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez — a day after qualifying fourth on the grid. Perhaps it was déjà vu for Pérez, as well as the two other drivers
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By MARK LORENZANA Deputies of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) on Tuesday, Oct. 25, began the legislative process for the electoral reform that seeks to eliminate Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), which would be replaced by another smaller body whose councilors would be elected by popular vote at the polls. The proposal seeks
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By MARK LORENZANA A federal judge indefinitely stopped the transfer of the National Guard (GN) to Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), which was established in the reform decree published on Sept. 9 of this year, approved by the Mexican Senate. Sedena must now return, at least temporarily, operational and administrative control of the GN to the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC). The Ninth District Judge
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Special Prosecutor’s Office for Electoral Crimes (FEDE) has concluded that Pío López Obrador, brother of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), did not commit any electoral crime. Incidentally, José Agustín Ortiz Pinchetti, FEDE head, is a member of AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena). Ortiz Pinchetti, in his decision, determined that Pío López Obrador allegedly
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By MARK LORENZANA According to documents leaked by hacktivist group Guacamaya, the federal government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the Armed Forces have at their disposal a “discretionary bag” worth 113 billion pesos from a trust fund of Mexico’s National Customs Agency (ANAM). Despite the promise of López Obrador to extinguish trust funds or “fideicomisos” under his
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By MARK LORENZANA Powerhouse Club América, which had been making life miserable for the rest of the Liga MX teams in this current tournament, was booted out by lower-ranked Deportivo Toluca FC on the night of Saturday, Oct. 22, while playing no less in its own home territory — Mexico City’s famed Azteca Stadium — in front of thousands of
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) backed down and agreed to stop, for now, the implementation of its contentious study program, after two judges suspended it indefinitely. “Temporarily and in respect of the rule of law, the pilot program of the new study plan for preschool and primary and secondary education will not be applied,” the SEP
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By MARK LORENZANA The Mexican federal government on Thursday, Oct. 20, published a list of products that can be imported into the country duty-free as part of President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (AMLO) move to combat inflation, and to curb rising prices that are affecting the basic basket of food items in Mexico. On the night of Wednesday, Oct. 19, a presidential decree was
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