By KELIN DILLON Following the fallout from Sunday, Nov. 13’s March for Democracy in Mexico City, which saw hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens show up in support of the autonomous organization the National Electoral Institute (INE) against the constitutional electoral reforms proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), López Obrador has now shifted his approach accordingly and
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a blatant act of me-tooism, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Wednesday, Nov. 16, that — after having first denied the massive 500,000-plus turnout of the nationwide March for Democracy on Sunday, Nov. 13, in defense of the country’s National Electoral Institute (INE), which he has been champing at the bits to abolish
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By KELIN DILLON Just one day after the massive Sunday, Nov. 13, march in Mexico City in support of the Mexican National Electoral Institute (INE), Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has seemingly rescinded on its previous promise to work with the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) to pass a controversial constitutional electoral reform, and is now publicly proclaiming its
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Imminent Exit: The INE or Morena?
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON After hundreds of thousands of people marched the streets of Mexico City on Sunday, Nov. 13, in protest of constitutional reforms proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to Mexico’s autonomous electoral organization, the National Electoral Institute (INE), the impact of the massive citizen turnout has reverberated throughout the country and across the world
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Starting at about 11 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 13, and heading from Mexico City’s Angel of Independence Monument to the Monument to the Revolution, tens of thousands of people marched in defense of democracy and the National Electoral Institution (INE) despite an environmental contingency imposed by the pro-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) capital governor, Claudia Sheinbaum.
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OPINION THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Neither the declaration of a last-minute day-without-a-car contingency by Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum — in full collaboration with the federal government — nor the vicious barrage of insults and allegations of corruption by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) against anyone who dared to defend the National Electoral Institute (INE) from being dissolved under his dictamen,
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By ENRIQUE KRAUZE It was not through some miracle, but rather because thanks to the efforts and sacrifices of generations, that Mexico has, successively, evolved as a theocratic, monarchical, viceroyalty, caudillism, dictatorial, revolutionary, revolutionary-institutional, and, finally today, a democratic state. Very soon, it may cease to be just that. It is sad, but perhaps understandable, that Mexico’s new generations are
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By KELIN DILLON Following the news that the Mexican government is set to defund Mexico’s autonomous electoral monitoring body, the National Electoral Institute (INE), by 4.4 billion pesos in 2023, members of the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) launched a campaign from Guadalajara’s Akron Stadium to support the INE – aptly titled “Goal for democracy! #I defend the
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By KELIN DILLON According to new estimates from the the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Tracker 2022 Monitoring Report, Mexico has burned and effectively wasted approximately $2 billion worth of natural gas over the past three years, as state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos’ (Pemex) lack of functional storage infrastructure has made it impossible to save and store the natural gas
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