A collision between two trains on Line 3 of the Metro Collective Transportation System in Mexico City on the morning of Jan. 7 left one person dead and at least 100 injured
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Sheinbaum and Ebrard, along with Senator Ricardo Monreal and Interior (Segob) Secretary Adán Augusto López Hernández, are all considered to be in the running as the standard bearer for the presidency under the banner of López Obrador’s Morena party
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Two former top-level officials who reported to then-Mexico City Governor and now Senator Miguel Ángel Mancera were arrested for alleged espionage
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By MARK LORENZANA Just hours after Roberto Elías Martínez, a control judge in the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas, died of gunshot wounds he had sustained during a shooting by suspected members of a drug cartel the previous day, that state’s main penitentiary, Cieneguillas, registered a violent prisoner riot and attempted prisoner escape on Sunday, Dec. 4, followed by a
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By MARK LORENZANA The contentious electoral reform spearheaded by deputies from the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has further divided the country, and two groups have emerged thus far: those who have called for a complete transformation — or even scrapping — of the National Electoral Institute (INE), and those who are
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By MARK LORENZANA Only 13 percent of Mexicans believe that the National Electoral Institute (INE) should be eliminated, 31 percent support some sort of electoral reform and 53 percent think that the INE has been doing a good job so far, according to a telephone survey conducted by Mexican daily newspaper Reforma from Wednesday, Oct. 26, to Saturday, Oct. 29.
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By MARK LORENZANA Amid the electoral reform spearheaded by deputies from the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) of Mexican President Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), which seeks to eliminate Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), the Mexican Human Rights Commission (CDNH) has labeled the INE as a “body that sabotages the will of the people,” and has claimed that “for years it
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By MARK LORENZANA Deputies of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) on Tuesday, Oct. 25, began the legislative process for the electoral reform that seeks to eliminate Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), which would be replaced by another smaller body whose councilors would be elected by popular vote at the polls. The proposal seeks
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By MARK LORENZANA A federal judge indefinitely stopped the transfer of the National Guard (GN) to Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), which was established in the reform decree published on Sept. 9 of this year, approved by the Mexican Senate. Sedena must now return, at least temporarily, operational and administrative control of the GN to the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC). The Ninth District Judge
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Special Prosecutor’s Office for Electoral Crimes (FEDE) has concluded that Pío López Obrador, brother of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), did not commit any electoral crime. Incidentally, José Agustín Ortiz Pinchetti, FEDE head, is a member of AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena). Ortiz Pinchetti, in his decision, determined that Pío López Obrador allegedly
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