By RICARDO CASTILLO Just as the dust is beginning to settle from last week’s approvals and denials fray of new national political parties by Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal (TEJPF), the National Electoral Institute (INE) carried out Sunday, Oct. 19, two pending elections that had been suspended due to the covid-19 pandemic in the states of Hidalgo and Coahuila. INE President-Councilor Lorenzo
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By KYLIE MADRY México Libre Isn’t Free México Libre, the political organization founded by former Mexican President Felipe Calderón and his wife Margarita Zavala, won’t be recognized as a political party after all, following a ruling by Mexico’s National Electoral Tribunal on Wednesday, Oct. 14. This isn’t the group’s first roadblock on the way to registering as a legitimate political
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There’s a lot more than meets the naked eye in the electoral imbroglio involving Mexican Federal Deputies Porfirio Muñoz Ledo and Mario Delgado, both vying for the presidency of the majority National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party. Election organizer the National Electoral Institute (INE) called the election “a technical draw.” and is now initiating a third contest
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By HUGO LÓPEZ VARGAS Covid Vaccines on the Way The Mexican government announced Tuesday, Oct. 13, that it had signed three pre-purchase agreements for covid-19 vaccines, in addition to those expected to come in with the global Covax Authority initiative, starting with possible deliveries as early as December or January. As a result, Mexico should have access to enough vaccines
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By RICARDO CASTILLO On Monday, Oct. 11, we will find out who the new president of Mexico’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party will be. Elections through polls organized by the National Electoral Institute (INE) are currently underway through Saturday, Oct. 8. The results will be made public by the INE, as stated, on Monday. Getting to this point
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By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S.-Mexico Trade Despite restrictions on nonessential travel across the U.S.-Mexico border, two-way trade between the countries has continued on a relatively steady course, with a hefty favorable trade balance for Mexico. Figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday, Oct. 6, indicated that U.S. exports to Mexico during August amounted to$17.047 billion, while Mexican sales to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The attempt by a conservative political group in Mexico to push President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to “resign now” is baffling. The group in question, the National Front to Stop AMLO (Frena), has established a permanent occupation protest in front of the National Palace, where López Obrador lives and governs the country. On a daily basis,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Voting for a Rigmarole The 11-member Mexican Supreme Court vote to allow a referendum to be held to decide whether to bring to trial past presidents for crimes allegedly committed while in they were in power past last week in two stages. The first stage was to decide if the public referendum is constitutional. The referendum’s constitutionality
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Even if the daily assault by the Mexican press and opinion columnists on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is no less than brutal, the problem they all face is that while he has a long-range program he strictly complies with, most of his critics live on a day-to-day basis. At the end of the road tally,
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