OPINION By MARK LORENZANA It was exactly a month ago, on Nov. 15, when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that he would pivot to a Plan B to pass his contentious electoral initiative, by any means necessary. But the most alarming part? He was twisting the meaning of democracy to force down the throats of Mexican citizens
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, Dec. 15, threatened to veto his own Plan B initiative to essentially eradicate the National Electoral Institute (INE) — which just had passed in the Senate one day earlier — unless the clauses giving eternal existence to his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party’s minority allies are eliminated.
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial “Plan B” electoral reform to Mexico’s secondary laws passed through the Mexican Senate on Wednesday, Dec. 14, with 63 votes in favor and 53 votes against, setting the stage for López Obrador to follow through on his long-term intentions to prune back the powers of the country’s autonomous electoral
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By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial ‘plan b’ electoral reform may have only passed through the Chamber of Deputies due to added provisions requested by the National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) allies the Green Party (PVEM) and the Labor Party (PT), the reform’s senatorial debate during the Mexican Senate’s Monday, Dec. 12, session saw some
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican Senate over the weekend chiseled away several clauses of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed Plan B to decimate the country’s most important electoral agency (and with it, weaken an already-strained national democratic process) that it considered possibly unconstitutional. The newly revised Plan B — which AMLO devised to get around the fact that
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, former head of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, current Mexican ambassador of Cuba and erstwhile presidential candidate, on Sunday, Dec. 11, declared President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s so-called electoral reform initiative “paramount to a political coup,” and called for López Obrador to be prosecuted before the International Criminal Court. The 89-year-old Muñoz Ledo, considered
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OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Mexico’s Senate has in its hands the future of Mexican democracy. Will it allow the nation to suffer the greater damage caused by the electoral legislation that was sent by the Chamber of Deputies? Or will it, in this crucial hour, assume its historic duty to represent the interests and will of the Mexican people? Maybe
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By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) National Regeneration Movement (Morena) managed to squeeze its controversial ‘plan b’ electoral reforms into passage by the Chamber of Deputies thanks to a last-minute legislative presentation and vote on the matter in the early hours of Wednesday, Dec. 7, Morena’s fast-tracked course of action has received major backlash from
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By KELIN DILLON Following Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) failure to sufficiently reach the two-thirds majority needed to pass his controversial electoral reform to the Mexican Constitution in the Chamber of Deputies, the federal executive followed through on his intentions to impose a “plan b” electoral reform to the nation’s secondary laws in the early hours of Wednesday,
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