By KELIN DILLON The members of the Va Por México alliance, which consists of centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), announced they would be going to the Organization of American States (OAS) on Monday, Aug. 23 to denounce the involvement of organized crime in Mexico’s electrol
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Back in 1988, General Augusto Pinochet had run Chile for 15 years. He had overthrown the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende in a controversial military coup in 1973 that gained international condemnation but was little understood by the outside world. Allende’s three-year presidency led to an extended period of social unrest and political tension
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A full month after Mexico’s June 6 midterm elections — the largest in the country’s history — Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo is claiming that the results were illegal since the election was heavily influenced by organized crime groups. Aureoles Conejo, a member of the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), which formed
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s “Va por México” alliance, consisting of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), and centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), will reportedly go to the Organization of American States (OAS) to denounce the violence in the country surrounding the nation’s elections. The parties claim the drastic uptick in violence before
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By KELIN DILLON Power vacuums across Mexican states created by June 6’s midterm elections have caused a dramatic spike in lethal violence throughout the country, with over 57 dead in the past few weeks throughout the course of five massacres. Six people died during a riot in a prison in Villahermosa, Tabasco, followed by seven shot dead by gunmen in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Michelle Bachelet said Monday, June 21, that she was “alarmed by the violence in the most recent electoral process in Mexico” and urged the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to investigate the murders of all politicians, supporters and candidates. “Mexico held the most
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By KELIN DILLON After the tragic collapse of Mexico City’s Line 12 metro, which the public pointedly blamed on the capital’s government, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, June 10, announced the federal government’s commitment to assist in its reconstruction and reopening. During his daily morning press conference, López Obrador said he would be meeting with Mexico City
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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AMLO Returns to Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s historically large midterm elections, held on Sunday, June 6, have finally come to definitive results, barring a handful of cases that have necessitated recounts. More than 47.4 million people turned out for Sunday’s vote, putting the country’s citizen participation at 52.67 percent for the record-sized elections. The National Electoral Institute’s (INE) quick count of votes puts
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