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Security Exchange’s Investigation of Pemex-Baker Hughes Case to Proceed

Posted on February 24, 2022 by Thérèse Margolis One comment

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican Senator Xóchitl Gálvez, a member of the country’s conservative National Action Party (PAN) opposition, said Tuesday, Feb. 22, that a conflict-of-interest complaint she filed with the U.S. Security Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this month had received the go-ahead to proceed with a financial audit of contracts between Mexico’s state-run Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company and the

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ASF Report Reveals Mega-Project Spending Discrepancies

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Kelin Dillon One comment

By KELIN DILLON A new report by Mexico’s Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) detailing the expenditure of the government’s public mega-projects, executed through the compilation of 15 financial and performance audits, has revealed inherent disorder, delays and irregularities found within the construction of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) pet projects, like the Tren Maya, the Dos Bocas

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AMLO’s Son Faces New Developments in Conflict of Interest Scandal

Posted on February 16, 2022 by Kelin Dillon One comment

By KELIN DILLON After attempting to distance himself from a multinational scandal surrounding his residency in a million-dollar mansion owned by an affiliate of Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in Houston, Texas, José Ramón López Beltrán, the son of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), revealed yet another conflict of the interest in the process of his

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Morena: A Rebirth of Mexican Politics

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Jessica Guerrero Leave a comment

By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The democratic political life of Mexico, as in many other Latin American nations, is relatively young. In the last decade, a new chapter began in the construction of Mexican politics after the sudden arrival to the presidency of a newly created party. Breaking through and eventually displacing the parties that historically held political hegemony

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Va Por México Alleges Criminal Intervention in 2021 Elections

Posted on January 20, 2022 by Kelin Dillon Leave a comment

By KELIN DILLON In a new filing with the Organization of American States (OAS), Mexico’s three-party Va por México alliance consisting of the National Action Party (PAN), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has accused Mexican organized crime of interfering with the nation’s 2021 electoral process through ballot box stuffing, violence and intimidation,

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The Rise and Fall of Mexico’s First Great Political Party

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Jessica Guerrero One comment

By JESSICA GUERRERO Mexico’s independent life as a republic began in 1821, 200 years ago. But the first hundred years of the country’s autonomy were dizzying and plagued with numerous internal conflicts. These events and circumstances unleashed the Mexican Revolution that broke out in 1910, and consisted of a civil war between several regional revolutionary forces against the authoritarian regime of

Mexico’s Labor Party, a Coalition of Leftist Movements

Posted on December 21, 2021 by Jessica Guerrero Leave a comment

By JESSICA GUERRERO The leftist faction is relatively new in modern Mexican politics. It was not until after almost 70 years of hegemony of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the 20th century, that the left began to take shape as the first citizen counterweights appeared. The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) saw the light of day in

Striking Workers Causes Chamber of Deputies to Flee

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Kelin Dillon Leave a comment

By KELIN DILLON After striking union workers reached the front steps of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, Dec. 14, legislators suspended their in-progress session and fled the scene as the workers attempted to enter the plenary hall. The dissenting laborers were acting in protest of the administration of the Chamber of Deputies’ Dec. 13 decision to remove income tax

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Mexico’s Capricious but Enduring ‘Green’ Party

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Jessica Guerrero Leave a comment

By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — More than three decades since its foundation by politician Jorge González Torres, the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) has managed to ride the partisan crest of Mexican politics, fluctuating like a chess piece between the different political currents in the country. But despite being one of the longest-standing parties in Mexico’s modern democratic

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Mexico’s First Great Leftist Force, the Party of the Democratic Revolution

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Jessica Guerrero Leave a comment

By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexican politics have been radically redefined in the last decade. The three great political bastions that historically had disputed the leadership and hegemony of the country went from an almost-lifetime splendor and permanence to a general crisis that has very nearly caused their dissolution. One of the oldest parties in modern Mexican history is the

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