Tag Archives: March for Democracy

López Obrador Floats Potential Pivot to ‘Plan B’ Electoral Reform

By KELIN DILLON Following the fallout from Sunday, Nov. 13’s March for Democracy in Mexico City, which saw hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens show up in support of the autonomous organization the National Electoral Institute (INE) against the constitutional electoral reforms proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), López Obrador has now shifted his approach accordingly and

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PRI Suspends Electoral-Reform Support after March for INE

By KELIN DILLON Just one day after the massive Sunday, Nov. 13, march in Mexico City in support of the Mexican National Electoral Institute (INE), Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has seemingly rescinded on its previous promise to work with the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) to pass a controversial constitutional electoral reform, and is now publicly proclaiming its

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A Very Justified Fear

OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER They say that fear and anger are the two most effective motivators in mobilizing a society electorally. What the people of Mexico witnessed in terms of the government’s reaction to the massive Sunday, Nov. 13, citizens’ March for Democracy was a clear demonstration of  what ended up happening with the way of reacting from the

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