However, opposition deputies claimed that eliminating autonomous institutions may hinder government transparency and could set Mexico back from decades of forward progress
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Meanwhile, opposition party members argued that Morena-allied retired SCJN ministers who hold positions in the current government still benefit from their retirement pensions
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The SCJN minister is now expected to join the team of Morena presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum
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A handful of National Regeneration Movement senators, including former Supreme Court Justice of the Nation Minister Olga Sánchez Cordero, voted against the initiative
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When it comes to chocolate, Belgium knows a thing or two. Considered by most chocolatiers and connoisseurs as the premiere source of quality cacao-based candies in the world, the European country’s close affiliation with chocolate dates back to the 17th century. Today, Belgium’s exclusive chocolates — internationally renowned for the stringent quality controls and exquisite flavor blends
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s civilian policing body the National Guard prepares to be integrated into the Mexican Secretariat of Defense (Sedena) as decreed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), experts have expressed concerns about the move’s potential to exacerbate the Armed Forces’ repeated human rights violations – especially considering that the National Guard has, too, been
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Julio Scherer Ibarra, former legal advisor to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), accused Federal Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero and Senator and former Interior Secretary (SeGob) Olga Sánchez Cordero on Saturday, March 19, of plotting against him to “soil his name” with a dissemination of misinformation campaign. In an interview published in
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) appointment of former Tabasco Governor Adán Augusto López Hernández to replace Olga Sánchez Cordero to head the nation’s Interior Secretariat (Segob) smacks of political maneuvering and foreshadows further plans to restructure the presidential team with an undeniable hint of succession. At first it seemed that López Hernández appointment was just
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Interior (Gobernación, or Segob) Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero announced Thursday, Aug. 26, that she will be resigning from that post to retake her seat in the Senate and to assume the next presidency of the country’s upper legislative house. Sánchez Cordero was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2018 and was
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By KELIN DILLON During his daily press conference on the morning of Thursday, July 29, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced he would be releasing a significant portion of Mexico’s prisoner population out of cells and back into society based on specific guidelines. Via a presidential decree, prisoners over the age of 65 with health issues and those
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