Inside Segalmex’s 15 Billion-Peso Embezzlement Scandal
While founded with the positive intention of supplying low-income Mexican families with affordable food resources, Segalmex soon became embroiled in scandal
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The AMLO Administration Looks into Campaign Finance Abuse
Read moreZambada Testimony Reveals Extent of García Luna’s Cartel Collaboration
García Luna’s legal defense team was unable to finish cross examining Zambada before the end of the court day, pushing the continuation of the former Sinaloa cartel member’s testimony
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The Morena Front
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Morena’s War on Corruption
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A Very Long Tail
Read moreAlito: ‘Threaten Me All You Want, but PRI Won’t Vote for Electoral Reform’
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) national leader Alejandro “Alito” Moreno on Friday, Dec. 2, said that despite “threats and political persecution,” his party will vote against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electoral reform, which would essentially eliminate the country’s most-important electoral institution and consolidate power for AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party. Moreno
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Auto-Review of AMLO Administration’s First four Years
Read morePacific Alliance Suspended over Peruvian President’s Travel Ban
By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 22, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) confirmed that the 17th Pacific Alliance Summit – which was set to be held in Mexico from Wednesday, Nov. 23, to Friday, Nov. 25 – will now be suspended indefinitely as summit participant and Peruvian President Pedro Castillo remains barred from leaving Peru
Read moreMexican Democracy in Suspension
By ENRIQUE KRAUZE It was not through some miracle, but rather because thanks to the efforts and sacrifices of generations, that Mexico has, successively, evolved as a theocratic, monarchical, viceroyalty, caudillism, dictatorial, revolutionary, revolutionary-institutional, and, finally today, a democratic state. Very soon, it may cease to be just that. It is sad, but perhaps understandable, that Mexico’s new generations are
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