For her part, Piña used her speech at the ceremony as an opportunity to advocate for Mexican judges to solely be appointed based on prior qualifications rather than arbitrary means
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Unlike the constitutions that had preceded it, the 1917 charter encompassed a wide range of cutting-edge social reforms
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Lorenzo Córdova, head of the National Electoral Institute (INE), called on Mexicans to rebel against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “Plan B” electoral reform by resorting to every legal option available
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Monday’s election required three voting rounds before Piña earned the six out of 11 votes she needed to take the SCJN presidency
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, Dec. 15, threatened to veto his own Plan B initiative to essentially eradicate the National Electoral Institute (INE) — which just had passed in the Senate one day earlier — unless the clauses giving eternal existence to his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party’s minority allies are eliminated.
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican Senate over the weekend chiseled away several clauses of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed Plan B to decimate the country’s most important electoral agency (and with it, weaken an already-strained national democratic process) that it considered possibly unconstitutional. The newly revised Plan B — which AMLO devised to get around the fact that
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Mexico’s Senate has in its hands the future of Mexican democracy. Will it allow the nation to suffer the greater damage caused by the electoral legislation that was sent by the Chamber of Deputies? Or will it, in this crucial hour, assume its historic duty to represent the interests and will of the Mexican people? Maybe
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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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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE I’ve heard it asked time and time again: What if I am arrested in Mexico? Myths and urban legends abound in Mexico surrounding the ease with which foreigners are arrested, for all kinds of offenses, from drugs to public intoxication. Nothing is further from the truth. Foreigners are rarely arrested in Mexico. There is definitely
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO One day after Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) ruled against his jail-no-bail policy to imprison anyone charged with white-collar crimes, such as embezzlement or tax evasion, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) on Friday, Nov. 23, ordered his Security and Citizen Protection Secretariat (SSPC) to disobey the mandates of judges, calling the ruling “an act
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