By RICARDO CASTILLO The top criticism of outgoing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and his governance team has been repeated time and time again. “They just don’t understand that they don’t understand,” was the general consensus of top columnists and political observers across Mexico as the president sent his last State of the Nation Address to the joint session of Congress (the
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It may be an inexact science, but it’s in the air in Mexico these days. In colloquial Spanish, it’s called “rumorología,” which literally translates in English to “rumor-ology.” The flood of rumors preceding the upcoming Sunday, July 1, election is massive. The loudest rumor is that there is a mega-fraud in the making to put the “official”
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By RICARDO CASTILLO In 2012, Enrique Peña Nieto won the presidential election representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), defeating Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) by a narrow, but credible, margin of 38 to 32 percent of the general vote count. Unlike in the aftermath of the 2006 election when AMLO lost to National Action Party
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Many political observers are having trouble settling into the idea that Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is on a steady victory path heading up to the final lap of the Mexican presidential race. The number of offensive labels being tagged to AMLO is overwhelming, ranging from “liberal madman” to someone craving “absolute power.” And in between, he may also be trying out the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The Mexican election got rolled over by soccer as of Thursday, June 14, only two days after the third and last of presidential debates. Most analysts and commentators nitpicked the claims, accusations, outright lies and statements of grandeur by some of the candidates. For most, if not all, political observers the end of the debates meant the end
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The last lap of Mexico’s 2018 general elections begins today, Tuesday, June 12, with the four presidential candidates meeting in Mérida, Yucatán, for the third and final debates organize by the National Electoral Institute (INE.) As expected, unusual moves are happening. The most notorious is the turn of events stemming out of a stumping speech by the “For Mexico to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican senate candidate Nestora Salgado has filed slander and defamation charges against Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate José Antonio Meade. During the May 20 presidential debate, Meade said that “criminal kidnapper” Nestora and Miners and Metal Workers’ Union leader Napoleón Gómez were “convicts” who did not have the right to become legislators. Fake news on the part of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s been more than one month of presidential electoral campaign and about the only thing that is certain is that the political trend of the candidates has not budged. But now voters are busy again as the campaigns for Congress, nine state governors and municipal mayors officially kicked off on April 28, so expect that the publicity lambasting
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Indonesian Embassy in Mexico hosted an internal background conference on Mexican politics at its chancellery offices in Colonia Polanco on Monday, April 23. The conference, which was mediated by Indonesian Ambassador to Mexico Yusra Khan, included discourses on Mexico’s upcoming July 1 presidential elections and its potential impact on the nation’s economy by
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