By KELIN DILLON The National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) coordinator of the parliamentary process in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, Pablo Gómez, has assured that there will be no two-year extension of Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) President Arturo Zaldívar’s term, despite its proposal by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). According to Gómez, even if the extension
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Electorate Institute (INE) voted on Friday, Jan. 15, to reduce Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) influence on the upcoming midterm elections this summer by limiting his speech during his daily morning press conferences until the campaign trail for the elections has finished. The vote passed through the INE’s general council with a tally
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador publicly clashed heads this week over whether or not AMLO will be able to hold his daily press conferences during the upcoming mideterm elections this June. Lorenzo Córdova, president of the INE, said on Tuesday, Jan. 12, that López Obrador would have to suspend his
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Regardless of their political leaning — Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative — what Americans witnessed in Washington, D.C. yesterday, Wednesday, Jan. 6, represented a repugnant and shameful disgrace for every U.S. citizen. The savage violation of the U.S. Capitol building by a mob of rightwing ultraists who, egged on and enabled by the incendiary rhetoric of
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By KYLIE MADRY Do the Cabinet Shuffle While the resignation of Mexico’s Security and Public Protection Secretary Alfonso Durazo made headlines several weeks ago, more cabinet changes are coming, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). To replace Durazo, AMLO proposed Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who had been appointed to oversee Mexico’s sea ports and merchant shipping in July, during his
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The South Korean Embassy in Mexico and the Korean Cultural Center hosted a spectacular, one-night-only performance by the renowned National Gugak Center of traditional music and dance at Mexico City’s Teatro Metropólitan on Saturday, April 6, to mark the 100th anniversary of that country’s March First Independence Movement against Japanese colonial rule and the subsequent establishment of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite serious concerns expressed by both national and international civil and human rights organizations, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial new security force, the National Guard (GN), is expected to be implemented within a week, but will remain on hold for a few more days. “We have decided to wait until the
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eNapoleón Gómez Urrutia, head of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union. Photo: veracruzenlasnoticas.com By RICARDO CASTILLO The wheel of fortune has made a full circle for Mexican Senator Napoleón Gómez Urrutia. In 2006, Gómez Urrutia, then — and still — leader of the Mexican Miners and Metal Smelters Union, fled Mexico Canada-bound, charged with a $55 million embezzlement of union funds. Had he
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