Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies approved the proposal by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to reform the nation’s mining law, but not before revising several points, chief among them extending mining concessions
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Mexico’s National Institute for Transparency Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (INAI) has been all over the news lately — but for all the wrong reasons
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Osorio Chong, for his part, denounced in a press conference what he described was “an illegal extraordinary general assembly of the PRI bench” in the Senate, called by seven PRI legislators including Añorve and Mario Zamora, another PRI member purportedly close to Moreno
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According to the municipalities, certain reforms in the electoral law violate their budgetary autonomy, specifically by “limiting social communication spending to 0.1 percent.”
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Mexican society should be able to raise its hands to defend itself
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OPINION By MARK LORENZANA It was exactly a month ago, on Nov. 15, when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that he would pivot to a Plan B to pass his contentious electoral initiative, by any means necessary. But the most alarming part? He was twisting the meaning of democracy to force down the throats of Mexican citizens
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, former head of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, current Mexican ambassador of Cuba and erstwhile presidential candidate, on Sunday, Dec. 11, declared President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s so-called electoral reform initiative “paramount to a political coup,” and called for López Obrador to be prosecuted before the International Criminal Court. The 89-year-old Muñoz Ledo, considered
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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 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 In the midst of a debate plagued by accusations of vote buying, disqualifications and insults, the plenary session of the Mexican Senate — with the majority vote of senators under Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and their allies, as well as the majority of legislators from the Institutional Revolutionary Party
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