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Time to Give Mexico’s Green Party a Red Light

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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The parliamentary defeat on Sunday, April 17, of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform bill was not only a bruising blow for the Mexican president’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, but it was also a chance for the Mexican people to settle some outstanding score within the country’s so-called Green Party. In the

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Mexico’s Capricious but Enduring ‘Green’ Party

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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — More than three decades since its foundation by politician Jorge González Torres, the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) has managed to ride the partisan crest of Mexican politics, fluctuating like a chess piece between the different political currents in the country. But despite being one of the longest-standing parties in Mexico’s modern democratic

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