By KELIN DILLON Just one week after hacktivist group Guacamaya leaked the Mexican Secretariat of Defense’s (Sedena) intentions to create its own self-run airline to the public, Mexico’s in-power party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), proposed a legislative reform that would allow the Sedena to run both a commercial airline and operate the nation’s airports at the same time. First
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By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Without having dealt with him closely, without actually having been his friend, I feel a distant brotherhood with political scientist José Woldenberg, who served as the first president of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE). Our initial trajectories were different. I belong to the generation of 1968 and I leaned toward liberalism early on. He belongs to the
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report conducted by daily Mexican newspaper El Universal, Mexico has spent more than 85 percent of its savings since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) entered office in 2018. These funds, housed in the Budget Income Stabilization Funds (FEIP) and the Income Stabilization Fund of the Federal Entities (FEIEF), had built up
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s in-power leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and opposing Party of Institutional Revolution (PRI) continue to reach collaborative agreements surrounding expanding the presence of the Mexican Armed Forces in the streets, the unexpected alliance took a new twist on Tuesday, Sept. 20, when members of both parties expressed a willingness to join forces with one another
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Sept. 7, Mexico’s Third District Judge in Administrative Matters of Mexico City, Yadira Medina Alcántara, enacted a nationwide amparo (legal injunction) to restore the country’s Full-Time Schools program (ETC), which was controversially ended in anticipation of the implementing the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) led government’s The School is Ours (LEEN) initiative by the end of
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By KELIN DILLON Following days of contention between members of Mexico’s Va por México electoral alliance surrounding the Party of Institutional Revolution’s (PRI) proposal to expand the influence of the Mexican Armed forces in the streets — a move made in collaboration with the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the very party that Va por México was created to defeat
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By KELIN DILLON When Mexico’s Va por México Alliance – a coalition of the nation’s once-dominate Party of Institutional Revolution (PRI), conservative National Action Party (PAN) and left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) – was once touted as a collaborative solution to the modern prominence of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) National Regeneration Movement (Morena) upon its
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO In yet another act of getting his way by hook or by crook, Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) on Saturday, Sept. 3, bulldozed his initiative to transfer control of the National Guard (GN), the allegedly civilian security force he created, to the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena), the country’s military, through the lower house Chamber of
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican Chamber of Deputies’ National Defense Commission is preparing this week to approve an initiative to make military service compulsory for women. The proposal, presented by Deputy Laura Imelda Pérez on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (SMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, is almost certain to pass approval in the Morena-dominated Congress during the
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