The aspiring successors of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador began their campaign for the National Regeneration Movement’s presidential candidacy with distinctly different approaches
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With Morena’s National Council having established the party’s designated campaign rules, the race for the succession of López Obrador has kicked off with the candidates’ sweeping government resignations
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A proposed extraordinary session of the Mexican Senate to appoint new commissioners to the National Institute of Transparency could be the make-or-break factor in resolving the institute’s months-long case backlog
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It’s safe to say that, sooner or later — even if it requires a Plan D or, probably, until a Plan Z — López Obrador and Morena will eventually get what they want with the INE
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Mexican society should be able to raise its hands to defend itself
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According to Jucopo president and the National Regeneration Movement’s parliamentary coordinator Ignacio Mier, the INE electoral process will not be resolved until on or after Feb. 1
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Aug. 10, deputies from Mexico’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, Green Party (PVEM) and Labor Party (PT) convened to remove Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) President Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas as the president of the Senate’s multiparty Government Commission of the Interior, a move expected to be ratified in a plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies
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By KELIN DILLON After his arrest on Dec. 22, the secretary of Mexico’s Senate Political Coordination Board (Jucopo), José Manuel del Río Virgen, broke his silence for the first time since his imprisonment in Pacho Viejo prison in a Monday, Jan. 3, phone call with Senator Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar, declaring his innocence against the allegations that he ordered the murder
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Ominous Holiday Warning After expert epidemiologists forecast an ominous surge of covid-19 infections for January, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) issued a public call on Friday, Dec. 4, for people to avoid attending traditional holiday “posadas” gatherings, which usually begin in mid-December and run through Christmas Eve, and to stay home as much as possible
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican Steel King Tanked, Again Spanish police on Saturday, Nov. 8, arrested Mexican citizen Alonso Ancira Elizondo in the island resort of Palma de Mallorca. Ancira, head of the steel foundry Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA), now faces extradition to Mexico. He was free on bond but the court, known as the National Audience of Spain, rejected
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