By KELIN DILLON In a presidential decree published in Mexico’s Official Gazette of the Federation on Monday, Nov. 22, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) determined all projects and works sanctioned by the nation’s government a matter of national security, drawing widespread criticism toward López Obrador’s continued prioritization of his favored pet projects and subsequent dwindling transparency to the
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS So much for multipartisanship in Mexico’s Congress. Despite promises from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party to “hear out and consider” objections regarding certain clauses within the president’s proposed Federal Expenditure Budget (PEF) for 2022, the 7.88 trillion-peso bill passed the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday, Nov. 14, with
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Nov. 10, Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and its allies passed the country’s proposed 2022 budget through Congress without any financial reductions, despite the opposition’s request for such, in a 274 to 219 split vote. The move will see 7.08 billion pesos allotted for all of Mexico’s expenditures in the upcoming year, controversially allocating
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has caught flack for purportedly promoting herself and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) when delivering scholarship and welfare cards to her constituents, complaints filed with the Comptroller General and electoral authorities have revealed. “We know what Sheinbaum’s intention is,” said Mexico City’s Vice Coordinator for the conservative National Action Party
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after the former head of Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Santiago Nieto, Castillo resigned from his position due to the scandal of his Guatemala-located nuptials, the current iteration of the FIU was asked to investigate the unit as it was run under Nieto’s leadership, said National Action Party (PAN) Senator José Erandi Bermúdez. “The current
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexico’s complex political system has historically stood out from those of other Latin American nations for conforming a multiparty structure composed of a wide variety of political organizations. The favorable conditions promoted by the country’s National Electoral Institute (INE) for the creation of new political parties have been key factors for the evergreen emergence
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after former Mexican presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya released an interview with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) detailing his perceived persecution by current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) once again has prepared to launch a warrant for Anaya’s arrest on Monday, Nov. 8. After multiple attempts to
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies debated over potential changes to the country’s Income Tax Law on Tuesday, Oct. 19, particularly concerning areas that would cause civil society organizations (CSOs) to receive less donations, differences between the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) and opposition parties resulted in a number of unprofessional situations, including deputies turning their backs and
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Action Party (PAN) and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), which, along with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) make up the Va Por México coalition, called out the PRI for not presenting further roadblocks to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) electric reform alongside them in a private meeting held on Monday, Oct. 4. The
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, Oct. 4, that he would not attend the award ceremony for the presentation of the Belisario Domínguez Medal to Senator Ifigenia Martínez on Thursday, Oct. 7, because Senator Lilly Téllez “threatened to disrespect” him. Speaking during his daily press conference, this time in Puebla where he was on
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