By KELIN DILLON Despite demands from Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and current majority in the congressional lower house, that it put an end to apparent “privileges” by the autonomous organization the National Electoral Institute (INE), Morena members serving in the Chamber of Deputies have still been enjoying the major
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By JESSICA GUERRERO The leftist faction is relatively new in modern Mexican politics. It was not until after almost 70 years of hegemony of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the 20th century, that the left began to take shape as the first citizen counterweights appeared. The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) saw the light of day in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) Council voted on Friday, Dec. 17, to postpone indefinitely a referendum for the nonbinding revocation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) mandate, the president’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) said that it will appeal that decision before the nation’s Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF). The revocation of mandate referendum,
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By KELIN DILLON After striking union workers reached the front steps of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, Dec. 14, legislators suspended their in-progress session and fled the scene as the workers attempted to enter the plenary hall. The dissenting laborers were acting in protest of the administration of the Chamber of Deputies’ Dec. 13 decision to remove income tax
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS So much for multipartisanship in Mexico’s Congress. Despite promises from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party to “hear out and consider” objections regarding certain clauses within the president’s proposed Federal Expenditure Budget (PEF) for 2022, the 7.88 trillion-peso bill passed the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday, Nov. 14, with
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Sunday, Nov. 14, passed a 2022 Federal Expenditure Budget (PEF) that cut the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) annual budget by almost 5 billion pesos, INE President Lorenzo Córdova announced that the institution is prepared to take its case to court to defend its right to sufficient resources to
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Nov. 10, Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and its allies passed the country’s proposed 2022 budget through Congress without any financial reductions, despite the opposition’s request for such, in a 274 to 219 split vote. The move will see 7.08 billion pesos allotted for all of Mexico’s expenditures in the upcoming year, controversially allocating
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By KELIN DILLON On the heels of his scandal-ridden wedding in Guatemala, Santiago Nieto Castillo presented his resignation as the head of Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on Monday, Nov. 8, after three years in the role, to be replaced by founding member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) Pablo Gómez Álvarez. Nieto’s nuptials caught major flack in the
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexico’s complex political system has historically stood out from those of other Latin American nations for conforming a multiparty structure composed of a wide variety of political organizations. The favorable conditions promoted by the country’s National Electoral Institute (INE) for the creation of new political parties have been key factors for the evergreen emergence
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s autonomous election organization the National Electoral Institute (INE) was dealt yet another blow against its quest toward electoral transparency by the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who proposed by majority rule in the Chamber of Deputies to remove 5 billion pesos worth of funding from the INE in its Expenditure Budget of the
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