By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The democratic political life of Mexico, as in many other Latin American nations, is relatively young. In the last decade, a new chapter began in the construction of Mexican politics after the sudden arrival to the presidency of a newly created party. Breaking through and eventually displacing the parties that historically held political hegemony
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By KELIN DILLON In a new filing with the Organization of American States (OAS), Mexico’s three-party Va por México alliance consisting of the National Action Party (PAN), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has accused Mexican organized crime of interfering with the nation’s 2021 electoral process through ballot box stuffing, violence and intimidation,
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By JESSICA GUERRERO Mexico’s independent life as a republic began in 1821, 200 years ago. But the first hundred years of the country’s autonomy were dizzying and plagued with numerous internal conflicts. These events and circumstances unleashed the Mexican Revolution that broke out in 1910, and consisted of a civil war between several regional revolutionary forces against the authoritarian regime of
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By JESSICA GUERRERO The leftist faction is relatively new in modern Mexican politics. It was not until after almost 70 years of hegemony of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the 20th century, that the left began to take shape as the first citizen counterweights appeared. The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) saw the light of day in
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By KELIN DILLON After striking union workers reached the front steps of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, Dec. 14, legislators suspended their in-progress session and fled the scene as the workers attempted to enter the plenary hall. The dissenting laborers were acting in protest of the administration of the Chamber of Deputies’ Dec. 13 decision to remove income tax
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — More than three decades since its foundation by politician Jorge González Torres, the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) has managed to ride the partisan crest of Mexican politics, fluctuating like a chess piece between the different political currents in the country. But despite being one of the longest-standing parties in Mexico’s modern democratic
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexican politics have been radically redefined in the last decade. The three great political bastions that historically had disputed the leadership and hegemony of the country went from an almost-lifetime splendor and permanence to a general crisis that has very nearly caused their dissolution. One of the oldest parties in modern Mexican history is the
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By KELIN DILLON In a presidential decree published in Mexico’s Official Gazette of the Federation on Monday, Nov. 22, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) determined all projects and works sanctioned by the nation’s government a matter of national security, drawing widespread criticism toward López Obrador’s continued prioritization of his favored pet projects and subsequent dwindling transparency to the
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS So much for multipartisanship in Mexico’s Congress. Despite promises from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party to “hear out and consider” objections regarding certain clauses within the president’s proposed Federal Expenditure Budget (PEF) for 2022, the 7.88 trillion-peso bill passed the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday, Nov. 14, with
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Nov. 10, Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and its allies passed the country’s proposed 2022 budget through Congress without any financial reductions, despite the opposition’s request for such, in a 274 to 219 split vote. The move will see 7.08 billion pesos allotted for all of Mexico’s expenditures in the upcoming year, controversially allocating
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