Judicial Reform Passes Mexican Senate
However, critics argue that the reform could compromise Mexico’s judicial independence and weaken the nation’s system of checks and balances
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Mexico’s Next President: Nearshoring
Nearshoring picked up steam when the covid-19 pandemic exposed the considerable risks inherent in the supply chains for numerous critically important products and intermediate goods for which there was often a single supplier
Read moreNavigating Mexico: Ask and You Might Get an Answer
Like in many countries, most ordinary Mexican citizens have given up on their government, assuming accountability or even an answer is impossible to get
Read morePlan B’s Invalidation Prompts AMLO to Seek Plan C Electoral Reform
Following the Mexican Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate the first part of López Obrador’s Plan B electoral reform due to violations of the legislative process, López Obrador announced another sweeping electoral reform — known as Plan C — to the public
Read moreAMLO Blasts Court’s Blocking of National Guard Transfer to Sedena
After Mexico’s Supreme Court blocked the transfer of the National Guard to the National Defense Secretariat, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that majority of the justices “acted factionally”
Read moreSupreme Court Admits Lawsuits against Plan B
The Mexican Bishops’ Conference (CEM) also expressed its concern about López Obrador’s Plan B
Read moreMexican Senate Suspends Proposal to Deploy Mexican Army until 2028
By MARK LORENZANA At least for the time being, the proposal to extend the presence of the Armed Forces on the streets for public security tasks until 2028 has been suspended by the Mexican Senate. During the discussion, Ricardo Monreal, leader of the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) majority bloc in the Senate, took the stand on Wednesday, Sept. 21,
Read moreSantiago Creel, Alejandro Armenta Voted as Congress, Senate Presidents
By MARK LORENZANA The plenary session of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, Aug. 31, ratified the appointment of Santiago Creel as president of the board of directors of the legislative precinct of San Lázaro, while Alejandro Armenta was elected as president of the Mexican Senate. Creel, of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), was elected unanimously as president of
Read moreAMLO Government Creates New 25 Billion-Peso Trust Funds
By MARK LORENZANA The Mexican government has just created three new trust funds, or “fideicomisos,” despite a decree by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in March of 2020 ordering the “extinction” of 109 trust funds to combat corruption. The beneficiaries of the three new discretionary trust funds created by the executive branch — without going through Congress — are the
Read moreDemocracy in Mexico Continues to Erode under AMLO
OPINION By MARK LORENZANA The word democracy is a combination of two Greek words: demos, which means “people” and kratos, which means “rule.” The ancient Greeks, after all, are credited with inventing democracy as a form of government. In Mexico, though, “the rule of the people” has been steadily replaced by the rule of one man — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
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