Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been sure to label the U.S. Department of State as a “little department” and as “liars” after the publication of the U.S. foreign affairs agency’s 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices alleged that much of Mexico’s territory remains under the control of narco-trafficking cartels
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Far more contested than the candidacy for the Mexican presidency is the upcoming battle to see who will become the next governor of Mexico City. Both elections will be determined in 2024, and while the results of the presidential poll are pretty much a given — current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Today in Mexico, there are three main contenders for the 2024 presidential candidacy of current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party: Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Interior (SeGob) Secretary Adán Augusto López Hernández, and Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón. Of these three, the most viable is
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The results of Mexico’s 2024 presidential election will be determined by the country’s middle class, a former Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) said this week. Writing in the April 11 edition of the newsletter of the U.S.-based trimonthly magazine Americas Quarterly, former SRE Undersecretary and current professor of public policy at the London School of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón on Monday, July 12, formally announced his intention to run for the candidacy on president in the 2024 elections. Ebrard made the announcement during a small lunch meeting with a group of his closest collaborators, sparking an immediate rally-like response from the attending supporters For most
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