By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been having a bad week. As Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola astutely pointed out in his Wednesday, May 26, column in El Universal daily newspaper, so far this week, AMLO’s so-called Fourth Transformation (4T) national redux has been leveled by a triple political whammy as a perfect storm
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s already-bloody electoral campaign season saw yet another tragedy on Tuesday, May 25, when Alma Rosa Barragán, the Citizen’s Movement mayoral candidate for Moroleón, Guanajuato, was assassinated during a campaign rally, continuing the electoral violence with just 12 days left until the midterm elections on June 6. Barragán was gunned down in open fire by a group
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since he first took office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been pushing to consolidating his institutional power by dismantling independent institutions, mandating constitutional rewrites and discrediting his opponents through unsubstantiated charges of criminal activity. One of the most notable victims of this latter political tactic has been the current governor
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, May 20, warned the Organization of American States (OAS) against trying to interfere in Mexico’s upcoming midterm elections. Speaking during his daily morning press conference, AMLO said that any attempt by the OAS to “interfere” in Mexico’s electoral process will be seen as “an aggression against
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) has declined to moderate in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) admitted electoral interference in the campaigns in the northern state of Nuevo León, declaring itself incompetent to resolve the matter. Instead, the electoral institute’s Contentious Technical Unit chose to send the complaints against López Obrador filed by the conservative National Action
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Elections in the North of Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON The investigation by the Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) into President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) brother Pío López Obrador regarding his alleged reception of funds to benefit the National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) electoral campaigns will continue, following a ruling by the Superior Chamber of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) on
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By KELIN DILLON After controversy arose surrounding Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) candidate for governor of Nuevo León, Adrián de la Garza, allegedly offering cash cards to women in an attempt to buy their votes in the country’s upcoming June elections, reports have revealed that most, if not all, of Mexico’s political parties commonly engage in this practice. The use
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By KELIN DILLON A number of academics, formal electoral officials and analysts have said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) acknowledgement of his own interference into Nuevo León’s electoral process could have serious legal repercussions on Mexico’s leader due to his public and self-aware violations of the Mexican Constitution. On Tuesday, May 12, López Obrador spoke candidly during his
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By KELIN DILLON Following Mexico’s National Electoral Institute’s (INE) cancellation of multiple gubernatorial candidacies of National Regeneration Movement (Morena) members, the INE has come to cancel the validity of yet another Morena candidate, this time, of San Luis Potosí’s Mónica Rangel. The aspiring governor was accused by the electoral institute of failing to properly disclose pre-campaign funds, the same issue
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