By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) has so far ignored the 20 proposed requests to investigate current and former officials tied to the construction and maintenance of Mexico City’s Line 12 metro, which saw a tragic and deadly crash on May 3, killing 26 people. The requests, filed by opposition parties, have been stalled by the Morena
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s northern state of Nuevo León, responsible for the country’s third-highest gross domestic product (GDP) of any federal entity, has been experiencing a highly controversial and polarized campaign season ahead of the approaching midterm elections in June, spurred on by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Because of the state’s economic and political power, Nuevo León is
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General (FGR), via its Office of the Special Prosecutor for Electoral Crimes (FEDE), announced it was opening an investigation into alleged electoral crimes committed by two current candidates for the governorship of the conservative state of Nuevo León, Adrián de la Garza of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Samuel García of the Citizens’ Movement.
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) held a live concert at Mexico’s National Palace in honor of Mother’s Day on Monday, May 10, during what would usually be his daily morning press conference, featuring singer Eugenia León. “We send our sincere, affectionate congratulations to all the mothers of Mexico,” said AMLO. “To the mothers who accompany
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By KELIN DILLON After Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic’s (FGR) acknowledgement of (and subsequent lack of follow up on) crimes committed by the country’s customs officials, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) turned the blame onto governors from the nation’s northern states for their complicity in the alleged crimes. From 2020 until February of this year, the FGR’s
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General (FGR) on Tuesday, Feb. 23, accused current Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca of committing a number of crimes, including collaborating with organized gangs and tax fraud, creating outrage among the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) opposition, and raising questions about just how far President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) Morena will
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Gags on Twitter and Facebook? A bill to “regulate the performance of social networks” in Mexico is due to be introduced in Congress this week by Senator Ricardo Monreal. The proposed bill would regulate social network companies like Twitter and Facebook on a national scale and would prevent them from censuring accounts of people or entities that
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By KELIN DILLON With the newest U.S. President Joseph Biden inaugurated on Wednesday, Jan. 20, questions have arisen in Mexico about what type of relationship will transpire between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and the new Biden administration in the years to come. In his daily press conference on the morning of the inauguration, López Obrador said the
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) exonerated the controversial General Salvador Cienfuegos of any wrongdoing on Jan. 14, following the country’s former defense secretary’s extradition from the United States late last year, drawing intense criticism from U.S. authorities. Cienfuegos was arrested on Oct. 15, 2020, by U.S. officials in Los Angeles on drug trafficking and money
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