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Cash Cards for Votes Practice Common in Mexico’s Politics

By KELIN DILLON After controversy arose surrounding Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) candidate for governor of Nuevo León, Adrián de la Garza, allegedly offering cash cards to women in an attempt to buy their votes in the country’s upcoming June elections, reports have revealed that most, if not all, of Mexico’s political parties commonly engage in this practice. The use

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AMLO Defies His Own Electoral Process Agreement

By KELIN DILLON Despite having written and signed an agreement with Mexico’s governors to not violate the electoral process, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continued to publicly badmouth his political opponents over the weekend, just hours before the official start of campaigns for the upcoming June midterm elections, showing his “agreement for democracy” to be nothing more than

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AMLO’s Press Conferences Filled with ‘Misinformation’ Says Nonprofit

By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) daily press conferences, known as mañaneras, are “a worrying instrument of misinformation,” said Article 19, an international human rights organization focused on freedom of information and expression. The group released its report “Distortion: The Speech Against Reality” on Tuesday, March 23, detailing AMLO’s “attempt to control and censure the Internet,”

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