By RICARDO CASTILLO … The National Electoral Institute is asking Congress for 12.5 billion pesos to hold clean elections in 2020, but some people are baulking at that sum…
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Tag Archive for ‘Andrés Manuel López Obrador’
No Deals with Gangs, but NGO Wants Coke Legalized
By RICARDO CASTILLO … While the Interior Secretariat has been accused of negotiating with drug lords, a NGO is trying to get legal access to cocaine…
Morena Is Still a Party-in-the-Making
By RICARDO CASTILLO … The frictional mood at Morena became evident when Senate leader Martí Batres Guadarrama lost his bid for reelection to Mónica Fernández Balboa…
The Purple Glitter Dust Rebellion
By RICARDO CASTILLO … For two consecutive weeks, throngs of angry masked women have staged virulent protests against the Mexico City police…
Landau Arrives in Mexico
By RICARDO CASTILLO … The new U.S. ambassador-designate to Mexico will have his work cut out for him in jumpstarting a rocky bilateral relationship…
A Sweltering Summer and a Market Fall
By TONY GARZA … Mexico surpassed China as the top U.S. trading partner for the first half of 2019, but bilateral trade would be on sturdier ground if the USMCA gets passed…
Meade Feeling the Master Fraud Pinch
By RICARDO CASTILLO … José Antonio Meade may be the next in line for the Master Fraud hatchet, and after him, the logical suspect might just be Enrique Peña Nieto…
The Good, the Bad and … the Gold-Medal Winner
By RICARDO CASTILLO … In the last couple days, three women have been the key focus of news in Mexico, each for very different reasons…
‘Alito’ Wins Presidency of Floundering PRI
By RICARDO CASTILLO … The Institutional Revolutionary Party’s internal election was a blatant display of traditional PRI hanky-panky and electoral tricks…
AMLO Receives Credentials from Four New Envoys
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF … Mexico’s president formally welcomed new ambassadors from China, Indonesia, South Africa and Nicaragua…
Eclac’s Bárcena: AMLO Grabbed the Bull by the Horns
By RICARDO CASTILLO … The ECLAC secretary general called on Mexican investors to stop shooting themselves in the foot and start pumping money in their businesses…
