By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies — whose majority bloc consists of members of the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — approved on the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 14, a proposal to use the Armed Forces for public security tasks until 2028. Yolanda de la Torre, a deputy of the centralist Institutional
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By KELIN DILLON Following days of contention between members of Mexico’s Va por México electoral alliance surrounding the Party of Institutional Revolution’s (PRI) proposal to expand the influence of the Mexican Armed forces in the streets — a move made in collaboration with the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the very party that Va por México was created to defeat
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By KELIN DILLON When Mexico’s Va por México Alliance – a coalition of the nation’s once-dominate Party of Institutional Revolution (PRI), conservative National Action Party (PAN) and left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) – was once touted as a collaborative solution to the modern prominence of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) National Regeneration Movement (Morena) upon its
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Far more contested than the candidacy for the Mexican presidency is the upcoming battle to see who will become the next governor of Mexico City. Both elections will be determined in 2024, and while the results of the presidential poll are pretty much a given — current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Sept. 5, members from both sides of the aisle of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies met to discuss expanding the presence of the Armed Forces on the streets of Mexico rather than their barracks from 2024 to 2028 – as proposed by Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Deputy Yolanda de la Torre – just as newly released
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By MARK LORENZANA The plenary session of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, Aug. 31, ratified the appointment of Santiago Creel as president of the board of directors of the legislative precinct of San Lázaro, while Alejandro Armenta was elected as president of the Mexican Senate. Creel, of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), was elected unanimously as president of
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By MARK LORENZANA Members of the Va Por México coalition, which consists of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), reaffirmed their alliance on Tuesday, Aug. 30, and are set to agree on fielding their chosen candidates in the upcoming 2023 local public elections and the
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Aug. 10, deputies from Mexico’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, Green Party (PVEM) and Labor Party (PT) convened to remove Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) President Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas as the president of the Senate’s multiparty Government Commission of the Interior, a move expected to be ratified in a plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies
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By MARK LORENZANA José Ramón López Beltrán, eldest son of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), warned Senator Xóchitl Gálvez of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) that he would take legal action against the legislator for “invading the property of others” and “not respecting” his “right to privacy.” “I reserve the right to take any legal action against
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Less than two years until the long-awaited presidential elections of 2024 are held in Mexico, the country will soon experience a political prelude of great relevance during the midterm elections for governor in the states of Coahuila and the State of Mexico (EdoMéx), which will likely define the course of Mexican politics toward the
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