Tag Archives: Federal Institute for Access to Public Information and Data Protection

AMLO Administration Proposes 4.4 Billion Peso Budget Slash to the INE

By KELIN DILLON After years of threatening to reduce the efficacy of Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration and National Regeneration Movement (Morena) – acting under López Obrador’s Fourth Transformation (4T) campaign promise – finally attempted to make good on its promise, proposing to slash the INE’s requested budget for 2023 by 4.475

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SEP Pivots Full-Time School Funding to Parents

By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, March 23, Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) announced that it would divert funds saved by the controversial cancellation of the country’s Full-Time Schools (ETC) program to affected children’s parents, though many education experts have raised concerns that this move will not positively affect the schooling of the nation’s children and could potentially be misused

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AMLO Doubles Down after Twitter Forum Defends Loret de Mola

OPINION By KELIN DILLON Following a Twitter forum held over the weekend in defense of Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola’s work and freedom of the press rights, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) – the main target of Loret de Mola’s fact-based reports – has come against the journalist once more in a public forum, taking to his daily

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