By RICARDO CASTILLO The last brawl in this legislative year in the Mexican Congress was over the so-called “Monreal Bill” that was stuck in the middle of a verbal debate and its vote postponed until February. The bill is also known as the “Bank of Mexico,” or “Banxico Bill,” and it has already passed with leeway at the Senate, and
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By NICHOLAS GRAY Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent a bill to the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, Nov. 12, that is intended to cull outsourcing subcontracting schemes that shortchange Mexican workers of their rightful benefits and allows for tax fraud. “Today we are going to present a bill to put order in everything related to subcontracting, generally
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The leaders of Mexico’s three leading opposition parties — the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) — announced late Tuesday, Nov. 10, that they would join forces behind the Sí por México (Yes, for Mexico) movement in order to back
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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 A mystery shadow is lingering over the future performance of Mexico’s currently leading political party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), in the 2021 midterm elections. Keep in mind that on Wednesday, Sept. 9, the National Electoral Institute (INE) will notify all political parties in Mexico to get their candidates for office on line to be sworn in
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When Gilberto de Jesús Lozano González, the founder and leader of Mexico’s Frente Nacional Anti-AMLO (National Anti-AMLO Front, or Frena) presented a formal demand before the Chamber of Deputies judicial committee on Wednesday, Aug. 5, calling for the immediate and irrevocable destitution from office of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), he had no illusions that it
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Upon turning over the care of the country’s customs service to the military on July 17 in Manzanillo port, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) finished his statement by saying that the times of “el que no transa, no avanza” (“he who does not double deal does not avance”) are over. The saying is a favorite
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Beaches Closed for Easter Mexican marines and municipal police have full control of Acapulco beaches to impede tourists from doing what they do best every Easter weekend: Enjoy their vacations. Guerrero Governor Hector Astudillo held a press conference on Tuesday, April 7, to “acknowledge the efforts being made by the persons participating in actions to keep
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Two Women’s Days It’s not amazing, given the nature of the brutality of some Mexican machos, to be witnessing the enormous support the two days of protest by Mexican women is getting just about from everywhere. You name it, social groups, universities, government secretariats (like Education, no classes on Monday, March 9) and entrepreneurial groups have all
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