By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s either one or the other, no in between. Either Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is at war with the press, or the press is at war with him. Maybe both. Since being elected president of Mexico, AMLO has been taking a pummeling from the media on a daily basis. Of course, there are the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO On Monday, July 8, the Baja California state assembly approved by a majority vote a bill to extend the governance period of newly elected Governor Jaime Bonilla Valdez from two to five years. Bonilla Valdez was elected last June 2 to govern for two years. Normally, Baja governors are elected to govern for six years. Elections
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The rumblings of a head-on clash between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) press secretary, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, and journalists could be heard loud and clear since the last week of February. Back then, during a conference at the School for Social and Political Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Ramírez Cuevas announced
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By RICARDO CASTILLO This week before the Sunday, July 1, presidential election reminds me of the same period back in 2006. At that time, I had been appointed by the then-Federal Electoral Institute – now National Electoral Institute (INE) – to be second aboard in a populous booth located in Colonia Roma in Mexico City. Back then this same period of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It may only be mid-January and it’s definitely freezing cold weatherwise, but the war of words in the Mexican elections is already heating up fast. Presidential “pre-candidate” Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO, for short) is deeply concerned that things might turn violent before the July 1 election day. The problem is, maybe, he’s got a valid point. Two weeks ago in
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