By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) National Regeneration Movement (Morena) managed to squeeze its controversial ‘plan b’ electoral reforms into passage by the Chamber of Deputies thanks to a last-minute legislative presentation and vote on the matter in the early hours of Wednesday, Dec. 7, Morena’s fast-tracked course of action has received major backlash from
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Peru’s new president, Dina Boluarte, said Thursday, Dec. 8, that she hopes that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who had offered to go to Peru, will travel to her country soon to comply with the pre-tempore delivery of the Pacific Alliance. Boluarte, who took office on Wednesday, Dec. 7, after her predecessor, Pedro Castillo, was
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Just hours before it was to begin debates over his impeachment, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo on Wednesday, Dec. 7, announced the immediate dissolution of his country’s national congress and called for new legislative elections to draft a constitution, only to be ousted from power by that very body. Members of the Peruvian Congress immediately responded by calling
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By KELIN DILLON According to new reports, the U.S. government has purportedly threatened to appeal to the international treaty the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) if it cannot reach an agreement with Mexico on the subject of genetically modified corn crops, an issue which Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard announced on Monday, Nov. 28, must be fully discussed between
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE An incredible amount of buzz is circulating about the new soon-to-be bestseller “El Rey del Cash” (“The Cash King”), the tell-all book by journalist Elena Chávez, the former wife of César Yáñez, who was the long-time spokesperson and former right-hand of current Mexican President Andrés Manual López Obrador (AMLO). The book is set to go
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By MARK LORENZANA U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Mexico City on Monday, Sept. 12, accompanied by other U.S. senior officials — chief among them, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo — and promptly held a High-Level Economic Dialogue (HLED) with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard. Ebrard welcomed Blinken and
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OPINION By GUILLERMO VOGEL and PATRICK OTTENSMEYER U.S. and Mexican officials met in Mexico City on Monday, Sept. 12, to hold a second edition of the re-launched U.S.-Mexico High-Level Economic Dialogue (HLED). Created in 2013, the HLED has historically served as a forum through which both governments advance the strategic economic and commercial priorities for their countries. On the agenda
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By KELIN DILLON Following the apprehension of former Mexican Federal Attorney General (FGR) Jesús Murillo Karam on Friday, Aug. 19, for his purported role in covering up the still-unsolved disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students in 2014, Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard announced his intention to go after the former head of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) Tomás Zerón
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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OPINION By MARK LORENZANA Veteran Mexican-American journalist Jorge Ramos, in an article for the now-defunct U.S. political and opinion website Splinter, wrote about the curious Mexican political custom of “el dedazo,” which, when translated roughly, means “to point a finger.” “As a young man, I was obsessed with the political phenomenon of ‘el dedazo’ in Mexico. It didn’t make sense
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