By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Four former national heads of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) warned over the weekend that voting for leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform would constitute a step backwards for Mexico and the possible extinction of the party itself. “What should it matter if the PRI is in government or
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By RICARDO CASTILLO By the time you read this news item, a jet that took off from Mexico City on Tuesday, July 14, will have landed in Madrid. The unidentified jet, either property of or hired by the Fiscal General of the Republic, has one sole objective. And that is to bring back to Mexico the former head of country’s
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Little Parties on the Skid The Mexican Senate, presided over by Mónica Fernández of the National Action Party (PAN), dissolved the partisan representation of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Social Encounter Party (PES) for not meeting the minimum of five senators to be counted as a party. The PRD, led by former Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Mexican writ of legal protection, or amparo, is a juridical resource for those who know they could stand accused of a wrongdoing. Historically, it’s unprecedented in the nation for a standing president to request an amparo which he will use in the near future. But as the old adage goes, there’s always a first time and that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO In the ongoing Mexican election campaign battle, it’s supposed to be time for the lull before the storm. Except, it isn’t. During this intermediate period between the pre-campaign that came from Dec. 14 to Feb. 11, pre-candidates made known their intentions of running for office. Right now, in the “inter-campaigns” period, the now officially nominated candidates are not allowed to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The first of three periods dictated by Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) will come to an end on Sunday, Feb. 11. This period was to denote both political alliances and carry out what in the United States would be considered primaries to select officials running for office. Over the next five months, the INE has programmed two more periods.
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By RICARDO CASTILLLO Did Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto make a big mistake when he appointed José Antonio Meade Kuribreña as the candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for the 2018 presidential elections? A growing number of observers in Mexico think so. It was considered very strange when, about a week ago, candidate Meade launched a full
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