By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s 2021 midterm elections came with a hefty price tag, more than 3.341 billion pesos, to be exact. According to the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) audit portal, as of Wednesday, June 2 — the last official day that candidates were allowed to campaign — the 29,568 gubernatorial, legislative, state and municipal candidates running for
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By KELIN DILLON During his daily morning press conference on the morning of Wednesday, June 2, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) insisted “there is peace and tranquility in the country,” despite Mexico seeing one of the bloodiest periods of electoral violence in the country’s history. “Where there is instability, there is confrontation, there is political violence, but not
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Mexico’s Electoral Violence
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By KELIN DILLON With Mexico’s midterm elections fast approaching on Sunday, June 6, instances of violence against politicians has increased in turn, with the shooting of four candidates, the kidnapping of one election hopeful and the torture and execution of a political operator all happening with just days left to go before the vote. Just last week, Etellekt Consultancy revealed
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The View from Abroad
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By KELIN DILLON A group of 430 intellectuals, composed of journalists, political scientists, businessmen, historians, judges and anthropologists, joined together to ask Mexico’s public to vote for the parties most likely to beat the currently in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) during the country’s midterm elections this upcoming Sunday, June 6. “Let’s be clear: It is necessary to defeat the ruling
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Mexico’s Upcoming June 6 Elections
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The growing violence against Mexican politicians, journalists and electoral officials poses a potential threat to the country’s June elections and could mar the credibility of the polling results, the head of the National Electoral Institute (INE) said Friday, May 28. “By definition, the presence of violence constitutes the negation of democracy,” INE President Lorenzo Córdoba said during
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After having managed to stay out of the global authoritarian populist limelight for the first two years and a half of his six-year term, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has now grabbed the cover of Britain’s internationally respected The Economist magazine this week. Unfortunately, the portrait that the magazine, which was published
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s already-bloody electoral campaign season saw yet another tragedy on Tuesday, May 25, when Alma Rosa Barragán, the Citizen’s Movement mayoral candidate for Moroleón, Guanajuato, was assassinated during a campaign rally, continuing the electoral violence with just 12 days left until the midterm elections on June 6. Barragán was gunned down in open fire by a group
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