INE and Mexican Government Clash Over Absentee Ballots
The INE approved 180,686 foreign voter applications in total – or 82 percent of the overall application pool.
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Mexican Government Registers Nearly 100,000 Missing Persons
Secretary of the Interior Luisa María Alcalde said the López Obrador administration has located 20,193 missing persons across López Obrador’s six-year term
Read moreAMLO Retaliates Against Amparo to Stop Speaking on Gálvez
The federal executive announced he will denounce the judge who issued the amparo against him, Martín Santos, in front of Mexico’s Federal Judicial Council
Read moreAMLO’s Plan C to Install ‘Morenistas’ in INE
López Obrador also said that Plan C was “already applied in 2018,” when he finally won the presidential election on his third try, and that “the people said enough”
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Russian Vaccínea The Mexican Public Health Secretariat on Monday, Jan. 25, published in the Official Gazette the ordinance outlining the purchase of covid-19 vaccines by private citizens, companies and state governments. No doubt, the announcement was rushed to the government’s newspaper spurred on by the announcement that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was buying 24 million
Read moreOutsourcing Bill Debate Postponed until February
By RICARDO CASTILLO Negotiations on the controversial personnel outsourcing legislation bill proposed to the Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Nov. 12 have been postponed until February 2021, the president announced on Wednesday, Dec. 9. During an early meeting at the National Palace with business leaders and labor representatives, AMLO said that the details
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Outsourcing Bill on Collision Course The bill to “reform labor outsourcing” sent to the Chamber of Deputies by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) last week is definitely heading toward a collision course in Congress. Mexican Labor Secretary Luisa María Alcalde complied the bill with the helping hand of the heads of the Mexican Treasury (Hacienda),
Read moreAMLO Sends Anti-Outsourcing Bill to Congress
By NICHOLAS GRAY Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sent a bill to the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, Nov. 12, that is intended to cull outsourcing subcontracting schemes that shortchange Mexican workers of their rightful benefits and allows for tax fraud. “Today we are going to present a bill to put order in everything related to subcontracting, generally
Read moreTargeted Women in AMLO’s Cabinet
By RICARDO CASTILLO One thing that sets Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) apart from his predecessors is the high number of women in his cabinet. Out of the bunch, three are being singled out by columnists who are flying out trial balloons depicting them under a group name, las halconas, or female hawks or falcons. Truth be told,
Read moreUS House Democrat Free Trade Working Group Meets with AMLO
By RICARDO CASTILLO … It’d seem that at the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, Thanksgiving is the make-or-break deadline for approving the USMCA…
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