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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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
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By MARK LORENZANA Deputies from three Mexican political parties — the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Citizens’ Movement (MC) — are set to file an official complaint with Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) for the expiry and wastage of more than 5 million covid-19 vaccines. On Saturday, Sept. 25, Mexican daily
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By MARK LORENZANA Daniel Tabe — owner of the Don Eraki chain of taco restaurants in Mexico City, and father of Mauricio Tabe, mayor of the Miguel Hidalgo borough in the capital — threatened José Enrique Reyes, an official of the Administrative Verification Institute (INVEA) of Mexico City, with a long kitchen knife on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Reyes, who was
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report conducted by daily Mexican newspaper El Universal, Mexico has spent more than 85 percent of its savings since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) entered office in 2018. These funds, housed in the Budget Income Stabilization Funds (FEIP) and the Income Stabilization Fund of the Federal Entities (FEIEF), had built up
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican daily newspaper Reforma, on Saturday, Sept. 25, reported that 5.4 million covid-19 vaccines had expired in Mexico and are set to be thrown away. Of the total wasted vaccines, 3.4 million are of the AstraZeneca brand, donated by the U.S. government, and stored in a warehouse of the Biological and Reagent Laboratories of Mexico (Birmex) in Cuautitlán Izcalli, in
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s in-power leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and opposing Party of Institutional Revolution (PRI) continue to reach collaborative agreements surrounding expanding the presence of the Mexican Armed Forces in the streets, the unexpected alliance took a new twist on Tuesday, Sept. 20, when members of both parties expressed a willingness to join forces with one another
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By MARK LORENZANA At least for the time being, the proposal to extend the presence of the Armed Forces on the streets for public security tasks until 2028 has been suspended by the Mexican Senate. During the discussion, Ricardo Monreal, leader of the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) majority bloc in the Senate, took the stand on Wednesday, Sept. 21,
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By MARK LORENZANA Raúl Paz Alonzo, a senator from the Mexican state of Yucatán and member of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), has defected to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena). On Tuesday, Sept. 20, Paz Alonzo was received with fanfare by his new Morena colleagues in the Mexican Senate, after accepting a position in
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Each day that passes is one less until the next midterm elections in Mexico take place next year, when representatives for the local congresses, as well as the governors for the State of Mexico and the Coahuila, located in central and northern Mexico respectively, will be determined. Coahuila, a state located in the heart of
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