OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO With four out of six state races for governor cleared, Mexico’s upcoming June 5 election is left to solve two main frays at the booths: Tamaulipas and Durango. Most pundits and polls agree that up ahead of schedule, the conservative National Action Party (PAN) will retain the central Mexican state of Aguascalientes, while the once-almighty centralist
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The results of Mexico’s 2024 presidential election will be determined by the country’s middle class, a former Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) said this week. Writing in the April 11 edition of the newsletter of the U.S.-based trimonthly magazine Americas Quarterly, former SRE Undersecretary and current professor of public policy at the London School of
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By KELIN DILLON Just two days after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced his intention to reform Mexico’s electoral system, the Mexican executive took to his daily morning press conference on Wednesday, March 30, to share a new extension to the reform, which would eliminate multi-member councils under the pretext of budget savings. If AMLO’s reform passes in
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By KELIN DILLON Following an extended controversy with Mexico’s autonomous organization the National Electoral Institute (INE), especially surrounding the upcoming mandate revocation process, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took to his daily morning press conference on Tuesday, March 29, to announce his intentions to reform Mexican legislation to grant electoral magistrates and judges their seats through a public
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By KELIN DILLON In the midst of the ongoing controversy surrounding Mexico’s autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) holding mandate revocation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the Mexican executive took to his daily morning press conference on Wednesday, March 16, to accuse the INE of hiding the locations of the process’ ballot boxes, requesting for organization officials to “define”
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By KELIN DILLON In a new filing with the Organization of American States (OAS), Mexico’s three-party Va por México alliance consisting of the National Action Party (PAN), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has accused Mexican organized crime of interfering with the nation’s 2021 electoral process through ballot box stuffing, violence and intimidation,
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The Battle for Morena’s 2024 Presidential Candidacy
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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 Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) seemingly believes everything that disgraced former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya’s claims surrounding who received bribes during his time at the company, despite several witnesses offering testimony to the contrary. After admitting himself to have received bribes from corrupt Brazilian company Odebrecht after his extradition back to Mexico in
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