Senate Committee Greenlights SSPC Strengthening Reform
The reforms will allow the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection greater intelligence coordination with other elements of Mexico’s National Security System
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Añorve Replaces Osorio Chong as PRI Senate Coordinator
Osorio Chong, for his part, denounced in a press conference what he described was “an illegal extraordinary general assembly of the PRI bench” in the Senate, called by seven PRI legislators including Añorve and Mario Zamora, another PRI member purportedly close to Moreno
Read moreWho Is Really to Blame for the Metro Crash?
Politicians are typically remembered for the decisions they make or the situations they face, successfully or otherwise, in the final stretches of their terms
Read moreMexico’s Supreme Court under Seige
OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The course taken by Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) last week on the issue of preventive detention (pre-trial detention without bail) is one more example of how the country’s highest court has been tainted by politics and how its justices have abdicated their responsibility to politicians. The debate over the use of preventive detention,
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The 28th Anniversary of the Death of Luis Donaldo Colosio
Read moreThe Rise and Fall of Mexico’s First Great Political Party
By JESSICA GUERRERO Mexico’s independent life as a republic began in 1821, 200 years ago. But the first hundred years of the country’s autonomy were dizzying and plagued with numerous internal conflicts. These events and circumstances unleashed the Mexican Revolution that broke out in 1910, and consisted of a civil war between several regional revolutionary forces against the authoritarian regime of
Read moreAMLO Offers Protection to Colosio’s Alleged Killer for Information
By KELIN DILLON If Mario Aburto, the confessed killer of Mexican politician Luis Donaldo Colosio, has further information about the 1994 incident’s true events, he will be offered protection, said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on the morning of Thursday, Oct. 28. “If Aburto and the family have something to say about his legal process that reveals another
Read moreAnxiety Over AMLO’s Disdain for Personal Security Mounts
By RICARDO CASTILLO There’s a growing concern among most Mexicans over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) disdain for personal security. Friends and political opponents agree that the lax security that has surrounded him for the little over two months he’s been in office has to be reinforced. The president’s problem is that he considers himself to be just one more
Read moreThe Dark Side to Mexico’s 2018 Elections
By RICARDO CASTILLO A small incident provoked by a well-known journalist highlighted a problem that is beleaguering the current Mexican electoral process. Over the past weekend, the news that political columnist Ricardo Alemán had been fired by two television stations was news. Curiously enough, Alemán was not fired for any content in his two political programs. He was fired for forwarding
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