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Experts Condemn AMLO’s Aim to Withdraw from the USMCA

OPINION By KELIN DILLON After a continued period of tension between Mexico, Canada and the United States over Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial energy policies, which directly violate portions of the free-trade United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and his continued public rhetoric against foreign and private investment, López Obrador has now publicly floated the idea of Mexico reneging

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Sheinbaum Investigated for Alleged Early Campaigning

By MARK LORENZANA Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who earlier this week contracted covid-19 for the second time, has been formally investigated by the National Electoral Institute (INE) for allegedly engaging in early campaigning for the June 7, 2024, Mexican presidential elections. Through an official letter, the INE asked Sheinbaum on Thursday, June 16, to clarify if she is to

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Morena Is Becoming its Own Worst Enemy

By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexican politics have always been distinguished by their dynamism and unpredictability. Year after year, new political alternatives arise, new players emerge and new ideologies evolve. The centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which for more than seven decades maintained control of the country’s presidency during the 20th century, finally succumbed to a desire for change when

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AMLO Won’t Go to Americas Summit (Surprise, Surprise!)

OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After much hemming and hawing, and trying to use his attendance as a political leverage peck against U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, June 6, announced — finally — that he will not attend the four-day Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, which actually had begun that same

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Under Sheinbaum, Homicides Surge in Mexico City

By KELIN DILLON While the national figures of Mexico’s enduring homicide problem have made headlines across the week of May 23, the spotlight has now been transfixed at the local level as new data reveals that the Mexico City government has broken homicide records underneath the administration of Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum. Though Sheinbaum has made a recent show of Mexico

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Morena’s Hunt for a Presidential Successor

OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO Old habits die hard! Mexico’s democratic political system is currently undergoing a return to an age-old political habit once known as “la sucesión” (“the succession”), in which one candidate was picked to replace the man in power. This succession routine became a political mainstay back in the days of one-party rule, and was ruthlessly enforced by

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Sheinbaum Sues Independent Firm behind Line 12 Crash Investigation

By KELIN DILLON Just days after the first year anniversary of Mexico City’s deadly Line 12 Metro accident, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has filed a civil suit against Norwegian company DNV for their third-party investigation into the causes of the lethal tragedy – a report which placed the blame for the crash on shoddy construction and tanked Line 12

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