By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Sunday, Nov. 14, passed a 2022 Federal Expenditure Budget (PEF) that cut the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) annual budget by almost 5 billion pesos, INE President Lorenzo Córdova announced that the institution is prepared to take its case to court to defend its right to sufficient resources to
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s autonomous election organization the National Electoral Institute (INE) was dealt yet another blow against its quest toward electoral transparency by the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who proposed by majority rule in the Chamber of Deputies to remove 5 billion pesos worth of funding from the INE in its Expenditure Budget of the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday, Oct. 7, said if his brother Pío López Obrador is responsible for what he is accused of, he should be punished. On Wednesday, Oct. 6, Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF) gave the green light to the National Electoral Institute (INE) to proceed with
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Happy Mexican Independence Bicentennial Anniversary! Sure, most Mexicans still consider Sept. 16, 1810, as the nation’s Independence Day, but in point of fact, the country really gained its sovereignty more than 11 years later. And so, Monday, Sept. 27, is the day that Mexico as an independent nation actually turns 200. For all practical and festooning purposes,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López (AMLO) has repeatedly said that the state-run oil venture Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will no longer use fracking practices to extract oil, Pemex on Wednesday, Sept. 15, presented a request for 11.657 billion pesos for a new fracking extraction project in 2022. The request represented a
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Senate on Friday, Sept. 3, approved President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) bill to conduct a public referendum midway through his six-year term to determine whether he should continue in power for the rest of his political mandate. The so-called Mandate Revocation Law passed Mexico’s upper legislative house after a long session of
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) appointment of former Tabasco Governor Adán Augusto López Hernández to replace Olga Sánchez Cordero to head the nation’s Interior Secretariat (Segob) smacks of political maneuvering and foreshadows further plans to restructure the presidential team with an undeniable hint of succession. At first it seemed that López Hernández appointment was just
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite a dramatic 74 percent uptick in violent crimes, a 7.3 percent increase in poverty, a contraction of the national economy every year since he took office, and, lest we forget, a dismal mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of nearly 260,000 Mexicans (and that’s just based on the official numbers, outside
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The integration of all the federal deputies of Mexico’s Green Party (PVEM) into President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, with the subsequent disappearance of the party as a whole, would, if it were to come to pass (and it very well might), constitute the biggest fraud against the nation’s electorate
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena), in an effort led by the party’s Senator Ricardo Monreal, will now look to reform the country’s General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF), removing all its current members in the process. “It is a very ambitious reform in electoral
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