By KYLIE MADRY Foreign Meds to Flood In Mexico’s medicine shortage will come to an end, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced at his morning press conference Thursday, Oct. 29. The country signed a deal with the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) for 32 billion pesos to buy medicine from outside of Mexico, which, until a few
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By KYLIE MADRY From Federales to Mall Cops More than 8,000 members of the Federal Forces Division and the Gendarmerie Division of the now-dissolved Mexican Federal Police will be reduced to doormen and parking lot attendants, according to an Oct. 17 report in La Crónica newspaper. The divisions built a reputation as specialized military-police forces within the Federal Police, with high-power
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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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