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Morena’s Growing Dissident Faction

By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Despite its short existence in Mexican politics, the country’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, founded in 2011 by the current president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has successfully positioned itself as the country’s leading political force in all levels of government. Its popularity over the course of the last decade has marked

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Historic Number of Women in AMLO’s Cabinet

By KELIN DILLON For the first time in the history of Mexico, almost half of the federal government’s secretariats will now be headed by women. The new cabinet of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will consist of nine women and 10 men, the closest gender differential ever seen in a Mexican president’s cabinet. The appointments break traditional gendered

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