By KELIN DILLON Just two days after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced his intention to reform Mexico’s electoral system, the Mexican executive took to his daily morning press conference on Wednesday, March 30, to share a new extension to the reform, which would eliminate multi-member councils under the pretext of budget savings. If AMLO’s reform passes in
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By KELIN DILLON In a new filing with the Organization of American States (OAS), Mexico’s three-party Va por México alliance consisting of the National Action Party (PAN), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has accused Mexican organized crime of interfering with the nation’s 2021 electoral process through ballot box stuffing, violence and intimidation,
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By KELIN DILLON Contested Venezuelan incumbent President Juan Guaidó, who challenged Venezuela’s current President Nicolás Maduro amid the country’s decade-long economic crisis, issued a warning to the Mexican people ahead of the midterm elections, slated for Sunday, June 6, on, from his experience, how to spot ways the government could be weakening the nation’s democracy. “Against the undermining of democracy,
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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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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 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 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 RICARDO CASTILLO Tweeting Donald began his latest tirade against Mexico last Monday, April 2. when he warned that a new threat was impending over the poor, helpless USA because the Mexican government was allowing a “caravan of Hondurans” to cross into Mexico and that caravan was heading for the northern border. And, once again, POTUS threatened to cancel Mexico’s “milk cow,”
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