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AMLO Warns OAS to Steer Clear of Intervention in Mexican Elections

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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De la Garza Meets With OAS over AMLO’s Electoral Interference

By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) candidate for the governorship of Nuevo León, Adrián de la Garza Santos, denounced President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the Organization of American States (OAS) based off of López Obrador’s “interference in the elections in Nuevo León, violating the Inter-American Democratic Charter, signed by the countries of the continent in 2001.”

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Rejected Would-Be Parties Will Sue

By RICARDO CASTILLO Although only one out of seven new applications for registration as a political party was accepted last Friday, Sept. 5, by Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), that does not mean the quest for registration is over for those dissatisfied with the decision. The only party admitted for registration was the Solidary Encounter Party (PES). Three of the

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Videgaray, in the Eye of the Hurricane

By RICARDO CASTILLO     Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray seems to be a master chef for all the dishes in the nation’s formidable international menu. But being a jack-of-all-trades has its shortcomings, and, indeed, Videgaray is now in hot water many reasons. FIRST: Last Monday, May 21, Videgaray convened with the so-called Lima Group’s (GL, for Grupo de Lima) representatives, comprised by

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Why the Americas Summit Was a Bomb

By RICARDO CASTILLO     The eighth Summit of the Americas (SOA). which concluded Saturday. April 14, in Lima, Peru, was little more than a watered-down exercise in continental power. For starters, the “mini-summit” was unintentionally bombarded by U.S. President Donald Trump by his not attending. Also silently absent from the event was talkative Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, who was not invited. A face-to-face clash

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