OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO With four out of six state races for governor cleared, Mexico’s upcoming June 5 election is left to solve two main frays at the booths: Tamaulipas and Durango. Most pundits and polls agree that up ahead of schedule, the conservative National Action Party (PAN) will retain the central Mexican state of Aguascalientes, while the once-almighty centralist
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexican federal deputies voted Wednesday, April 28, to remove the conditional immunity afforded to Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca as an government officeholder and to proceed with his impeachment, state senators voted late Friday, April 30, to reinstate that immunity and cancel the impeachment process. The leftist National Regeneration Movement
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It may be an inexact science, but it’s in the air in Mexico these days. In colloquial Spanish, it’s called “rumorología,” which literally translates in English to “rumor-ology.” The flood of rumors preceding the upcoming Sunday, July 1, election is massive. The loudest rumor is that there is a mega-fraud in the making to put the “official”
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