By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In yet another scathing international media report on Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) autocratic policies, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an editorial on Tuesday, June 8, calling Mexico’s June 6 midterm elections “a vote for democracy against the president’s radical ambitions.” In the front-page editorial, titled “Mexico Checks AMLO’s Power” and credited to the WSJ editorial
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) lost his partisan stranglehold of Congress in the Sunday, June 6, midterm elections, thus limiting his ability to ram through initiatives and rewrite the constitution on a whim, his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party apparently gained territory on the gubernatorial front, winning 11 of 15 slots, according to
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite extensive campaigns across Mexico’s capital aimed at gaining and maintaining control over its 32 precincts in the midterm elections on Sunday, June 6, preliminary vote counts indicate that the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) lost territory as a result of the polling. Morena, founded by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as a platform to promote
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Former Mexican Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) Consultant Mauricio Merino Huerta said Saturday, June 5, that while there may be some minor changes in Mexico’s political landscape following Sunday’s midterm elections, there will be no major changes. “There are not going to be any big surprises coming out of the vote count,” Merino Huerta told Pulse News Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard didn’t mince words when he verbally slammed the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, on Friday, June 4, just two days prior to the country’s midterm elections. During a morning press conference, Ebrard was asked to explain what role the OAS would play in monitoring
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is not unaccustomed to bad press. Ever since he took office in December 2018 for what he has promised will be a normal six-year term (as specified in the Mexican Constitution, but which many of his detractors fear he will extend, as he has already extended the constitutional term of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a brief but solemn ceremony on Friday, June 4, newly arrived Algerian Ambassador to Mexico Djamel-Eddine Grine and his staff paid homage to Emir Abdelkader, the founder of the modern Algerian state, with a wreath-laying and speech in front of the statue of Abdelkader in Mexico City’s upscale Lomas de Chapultepec. A Muslim scholar and astute
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The government of Israel on Friday, May 28, formally registered its displeasure with Mexico on for voting in favor of the creation of a special commission to investigate the recent events that occurred during the armed confrontation against Israel and the Gaza Strip. Mexican Ambassador to Israel Pablo Macedo Riba was summoned before the Israeli Ministry of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The growing violence against Mexican politicians, journalists and electoral officials poses a potential threat to the country’s June elections and could mar the credibility of the polling results, the head of the National Electoral Institute (INE) said Friday, May 28. “By definition, the presence of violence constitutes the negation of democracy,” INE President Lorenzo Córdoba said during
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It started off back in 2009 as a simple effort by a group of ecology-conscious business leaders in Texas who decided to join forces to stop the Texas Utility (TXU) energy company in the Dallas suburb of Irving from acquiring 11 permits to open coal-based production plants. Led by Dallas retail mogul Trammell S. Crow, the group
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