By KELIN DILLON A mew survey of the Mexican population conducted by El Financiero Bloomberg showed a wide divide in political party preferences within Mexico, mainly stratified based on age and level of education. The survey was conducted using 1,000 Mexicans contacted by phone in the second half of January, and particularly asked those surveyed to choose between Mexican President Andrés
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Electorate Institute (INE) voted on Friday, Jan. 15, to reduce Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) influence on the upcoming midterm elections this summer by limiting his speech during his daily morning press conferences until the campaign trail for the elections has finished. The vote passed through the INE’s general council with a tally
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador publicly clashed heads this week over whether or not AMLO will be able to hold his daily press conferences during the upcoming mideterm elections this June. Lorenzo Córdova, president of the INE, said on Tuesday, Jan. 12, that López Obrador would have to suspend his
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) assured the public that Mexico would have no issues with the United States as it transitions the executive branch from President Donald Trump to President-elect Joe Biden. AMLO’s message came during his daily press conference on Thursday, Jan. 7, the day after rightwing Trump fanatics stormed the United States Capitol
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and conservative National Action Party (PAN) formalized a political alliance by signing a joint coalition on Wednesday, Dec. 23. The Va Por México (Going for Mexico) alliance was officially announced by leader of the PAN’s Marko Cortés, the PRI’s Alejandro Moreno and a founding
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF José Ramiro López Obrador, the brother of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced Sunday, Nov. 1, that he had resigned from his appointed post as undersecretary of border affairs, migrants and human rights for his native state of Tabasco in order to run for office in next year’s midterm elections. The announcement was
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The announcement of the election of Federal Deputy Mario Delgado Carrillo on Friday, Oct. 23, as president of the governing National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party brought to an end the internal conflict that has beleaguered Morena for more than a year. National Electoral Institute (INE) Councilor Claudia Zavala made the official announcement and should be turning
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Few, if any, territorial disputes are historically simple or cut-and-dry. Most are shrouded in complex webs of nationalism and misinformation, coupled with the raw emotions of human suffering and violence on both sides of the conflict. But the ongoing skirmish between Azerbaijan and Armenia, although rooted in centuries of mutual distrust and ethnic divisions, really boils down
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Morena Unity
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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