OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A few weeks ago, a media scandal erupted in Mexico after the announcement of an arrest warrant issued by federal authorities for well-known television host Inés Gómez Mont and her husband Victor Manuel Álvarez Puga. The Mexican government issued an international Interpol alert against the couple in order to prevent their possible flight to
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Just three weeks before Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo is due to end his six-year term of office, the western Mexican state is rife with social tensions and rampant violence that threaten to embroil the once-rising political star in a scandal that could bury his future ambitions permanently. Aureoles Conejo, who at the beginning
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — A full month after Mexico’s June 6 midterm elections — the largest in the country’s history — Michoacán Governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo is claiming that the results were illegal since the election was heavily influenced by organized crime groups. Aureoles Conejo, a member of the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), which formed
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Do you remember Jose Antonio Meade Kuribreña? In case you don’t, let me tell you that he was the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate handpicked by former President Enrique Peña Nieto to run during the 2018 electoral campaign. Meade finished third in that race. Since then, Meade has seldom been heard from or about. But on
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Fear does not ride on the back of a burro; fear flies in the president’s airplane. This combined old and new adage is being applied to the dread being expressed by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto over his two beloved pet projects, both developed during his six-year mandate that will conclude next Nov. 30. Those
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