By RICARDO CASTILLO Just in case anyone still had any doubts, the old Mexican political system embedded in the once-governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) seems to be composed not only of a pack of thieving scoundrels, but also of cowards. The reaction of some of the leading members of whatever is left of the PRI to the arrest earlier this
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … It took only one and a half hours of half-hearted debate for the Senate to agree to accept Medina Mora’s resignation by a majority vote…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO This column is intended to be about the new Mexico City International Airport, now a topic of stiff controversy. But let me start elsewhere, with a different subject that seemingly has nothing to do with the airport, a Mexican political personality who, as a result of the July 1 election, plummeted from near-absolute power to a soon-to-be insignificant senator scrambling for scraps of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s been five full weeks since Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) won the Mexican presidential election. You’d think that he would be immediately recognized for his victory, at least with the moniker of “president-elect,” but in the national press, the moniker has instead been “virtual president-elect.” But as of Wednesday, Aug. 8, this situation will change. The Federal
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By RICARDO CASTILLO In the ongoing Mexican election campaign battle, it’s supposed to be time for the lull before the storm. Except, it isn’t. During this intermediate period between the pre-campaign that came from Dec. 14 to Feb. 11, pre-candidates made known their intentions of running for office. Right now, in the “inter-campaigns” period, the now officially nominated candidates are not allowed to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The first of three periods dictated by Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) will come to an end on Sunday, Feb. 11. This period was to denote both political alliances and carry out what in the United States would be considered primaries to select officials running for office. Over the next five months, the INE has programmed two more periods.
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A good question is why would the PRI choose Meade – a nonmilitant who is not even a party member – as its potential candidate?
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