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AMLO Announces Three Reforms to Mexican Constitution

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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced his pursuit of three significant changes to the Mexican Constitution on Tuesday, June 15, focusing on reforms to the document’s electrical, electoral and military sections. López Obrador proposed constitutional electrical reform seeks to strengthen the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) so that standard users will not pay higher rates

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Ebrard Lets Loose on Foreign Observers, Media in WP Editorial

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS One day after the New York Times laid the blame for the May 3 collapse of Mexico City’s Line 12 Metro (which led to the deaths of 26 people) squarely on his shoulders, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard published a guest editorial in the Washington Post on Tuesday, June 15, defending the government of President Andrés

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Institutional Revolutionary Party Rejects AMLO’s Courtship

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After Mexico’s midterm elections on Sunday, June 6, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) openly flirted with the idea that he could woo the once-invincible centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to his court in order to maintain a qualified majority in the country’s lower congressional Chamber of Deputies. But the PRI, whose members are often the object of

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WSJ Calls Mexico’s Midterm Elections ‘a Vote for Democracy’

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In yet another scathing international media report on Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) autocratic policies, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an editorial on Tuesday, June 8, calling Mexico’s June 6 midterm elections “a vote for democracy against the president’s radical ambitions.” In the front-page editorial, titled “Mexico Checks AMLO’s Power” and credited to the WSJ editorial

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Morena Loses Qualified Majority in Chamber of Deputies

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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) lost its qualified majority in the Chamber of Deputies during the elections held on Sunday, June 6, curbing its ability to modify the nation’s constitution without outside help. Preliminary results announced by the National Electoral Institute (INE) on Sunday evening showed Morena projected to win 35 percent of the votes into

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Mexico’s Morena Gains Ground on Gubernatorial Front

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) lost his partisan stranglehold of Congress in the Sunday, June 6, midterm elections, thus limiting his ability to ram through initiatives and rewrite the constitution on a whim, his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party apparently gained territory on the gubernatorial front, winning 11 of 15 slots, according to

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With Midterm Vote, Morena Loses Precincts in Mexico City

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite extensive campaigns across Mexico’s capital aimed at gaining and maintaining control over its 32 precincts in the midterm elections on Sunday, June 6, preliminary vote counts indicate that the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) lost territory as a result of the polling. Morena, founded by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as a platform to promote

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