By KELIN DILLON Just over two months before Mexico’s June 2021 midterm elections, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced he would be doubling the pension for the nation’s elderly community gradually, until reaching 6,000 pesos every two months in 2024. AMLO also revealed the minimum age to receive the pension would go down from 68 to 65, expanding
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By KELIN DILLON Among the reported 61 assassinated political actors since Mexico’s midterm electoral process began in September 2020 were 18 candidates up for government seats this June, reported consulting firm Etellekt’s Indicator of Political Violence in Mexico. Most recently, Ivonne Gallegos Carreño, who was candidate for the municipal presidency of Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, was murdered Saturday, March 20,
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial reform to The country’s electric industry received further roadblocks to its implementation following a second judge’s additional suspensions to the law on Wednesday, March 17, much to the chagrin of López Obrador. Judge Rodrigo de la Peza López Figueroa ruled in favor of 11 amparos (a legal term in
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Mexico’s Political Campaigns Are Off and Running
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By KELIN DILLON As protests continue in Mexico against National Regeneration Movement (Morena) gubernatorial candidate for Guerrero Félix Salgado Macedonio, who has been accused of the alleged rape and sexual assault of several women, a similar case has arisen in the United States against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s purported inappropriate behavior, showing a stark contrast between how the two
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Federalist Alliance of Governors has announced it will accept and sign President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) national agreement for democracy, on the conditions of its oversight by the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the removal of the so-called “servants of the nation” (all members and supporters of his leftist National Regeneration Movement, or Morena, party)
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By KELIN DILLON Controversy has arisen over the ratification of the nomination of Félix Salgado Macedonio as the the National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) candidate for governor in the coastal Mexican state of Guerrero, following several allegations of rape against him. Two women came forward with allegations of sexual assault against Salgado, including one woman who claimed she was assaulted in
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF) decided in a majority vote on Wednesday, Feb. 18, to reverse the decision made by the National Electoral Institute (INE) to prevent public servants, particularly Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), from speaking publicly about Mexico’s electoral process as the nation approaches its midterm elections this June.
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By KELIN DILLON Mexicans fortunate enough to receive a vaccine against covid-19 have been asked for their CURP (Individual national identification) and voting credentials upon arrival to the inoculation site, which would then be photographed and put on record by National Regeneration Movement (Morena) public servants, causing outrage among opposition parties, and a proclamation of innocence from Mexican President Andrés
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Checking Out the Candidates
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