Tag Archives: Layda Sansores

Alito: ‘Threaten Me All You Want, but PRI Won’t Vote for Electoral Reform’

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) national leader Alejandro “Alito” Moreno on Friday, Dec. 2, said that despite “threats and political persecution,” his party will vote against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electoral reform, which would essentially eliminate the country’s most-important electoral institution and consolidate power for AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party. Moreno

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The Fray for the Nation’s Capital

OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Far more contested than the candidacy for the Mexican presidency is the upcoming battle to see who will become the next governor of Mexico City. Both elections will be determined in 2024, and while the results of the presidential poll are pretty much a given — current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National

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All the Kings Horses

OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO These days, the political gossip churners in Mexico have a new favorite target: Federal Deputy Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, alias “Alito” (short for Alejandro), who is the both the current president of the once-mighty Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, which ruled the country without interruptions from 1929 to 2000), and the leader of the remaining 70 PRI deputies in

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New Governors of Mexican States Inherit Debt from Predecessors

By KELIN DILLON The newly sworn-in governors of Mexican states Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Sonora, Campeche, Nayarit and San Luis Potosí have raised concerns about the precarious financial situations of the states they inherited, noting the lack of funds present to pay payroll, pensions and providers. The National Action Party’s (PAN) Governor of Chihuahua María Eugenia Campos made note of a 11

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