Green Sprouts and Dark Clouds for North American Ties
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Woldenberg, the Democrat
By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Without having dealt with him closely, without actually having been his friend, I feel a distant brotherhood with political scientist José Woldenberg, who served as the first president of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE). Our initial trajectories were different. I belong to the generation of 1968 and I leaned toward liberalism early on. He belongs to the
Read moreAn Americas Summit, without AMLO
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read morePaving the Way for a One-Party Regime
OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO In the eyes of some pundits, the current trend in Mexican elections is the result of a democratic procedure, but for others, the imminent results of the country’s midterm elections on Sunday, June 5, is an ominous path to a return of a one-party system. If all current forecasts are correct, the “awesome threesome” political coalition
Read moreDirty Tricks Politics Afoot in Tamaulipas, Durango Gubernatorial Races
OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO With four out of six state races for governor cleared, Mexico’s upcoming June 5 election is left to solve two main frays at the booths: Tamaulipas and Durango. Most pundits and polls agree that up ahead of schedule, the conservative National Action Party (PAN) will retain the central Mexican state of Aguascalientes, while the once-almighty centralist
Read moreUS Border Town Braces for More Migrants as Partisan Fights Rage on
XINHUA HIDALGO, Texas — It’s a scene straight out of a “Mission: Impossible” episode: A helicopter hovers at low altitude above a roadside jungle while several officers search on foot along the bush edges with a dozen vehicles from multiple law enforcement agencies stopping by. But for people living in Hidalgo, a county near the U.S.-Mexico border with Texas, the
Read moreAMLO Plagued by Strikes, Walkouts and Shutdowns
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Halfway through his six-year term, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) may claim that nearly 60 percent of Mexicans still support him and his leftist Fourth Transformation (4T) administration, but it’s the remaining 40 percent he needs to worry about. Not only did his National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party lose significant political terrain in the June
Read moreThe Betrayal of the PRI Governors
By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The future of Mexico’s centralist National Institutional Party (PRI) will be contingent to a single concept: loyalty. The PRI lost all the governorships in its power in June for two reasons: the depth of its discredit (derived more from its arrogance than from the failure of the governments it led), and the lack of loyalty of
Read moreOHCHR Head ‘Alarmed’ by Mexico’s Midterm Election Violence
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Michelle Bachelet said Monday, June 21, that she was “alarmed by the violence in the most recent electoral process in Mexico” and urged the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to investigate the murders of all politicians, supporters and candidates. “Mexico held the most
Read moreEbrard Lets Loose on Foreign Observers, Media in WP Editorial
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS One day after the New York Times laid the blame for the May 3 collapse of Mexico City’s Line 12 Metro (which led to the deaths of 26 people) squarely on his shoulders, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard published a guest editorial in the Washington Post on Tuesday, June 15, defending the government of President Andrés
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