Sheinbaum Addresses Presidential Policies in Inauguration Speech
Sheinbaum’s presidency, from 2024 to 2030, is a historic milestone that marks the first time a woman or Jewish person has held Mexico’s highest office
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Claudia Sheinbaum Wins Mexican Presidency
Sheinbaum, the handpicked successor of outgoing Morena President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will be Mexico’s first woman and Jewish president.
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Read moreMexico Honors Its Great Liberator with National Holiday
Juárez was actually born on March 21, but to allow for a long weekend, the Mexican government has decreed that his birthday be celebrated one day early
Read moreAMLO, Ebrard Respond to Trump’s Claims of Influence
By KELIN DILLON After an unexpected friendship blossomed between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and former U.S. President Donald Trump during the leaders’ administrative overlap as a bond over baseball brought the ideologically opposed self-professed socialist and staunch Republican conservative together, Trump’s post-administration speaking engagements have brought fresh commentary on his perspective of the relationship between the two
Read moreAMLO Blames Low Voter Turnout for Referendum on INE
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After the dismal turnout of barely 18 percent of eligible voters for his highly publicized revocation of mandate referendum the day before, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, April 11, admitted that he had received less than half the votes supporting his remainder in power than he had during his 2018
Read moreLow Turnout Mars Mexico’s Revocation of Mandate Vote
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Only 16 to 17 million Mexicans — about 17 to 18 percent of eligible voters — participated in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted revocation of mandate referendum on Sunday, April 10, according to the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) preliminary figures, representing less than half the required turnout required for the referendum to be binding. And
Read moreNavigating Mexico: Getting Government Data
By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Mexico’s National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Data Protection (INAI) has been in the news quite a bit recently for political reasons.. But it is important to know the work this autonomous agency does and the amazing free resource is it for the general public. The INAI was created in 2002 by the
Read moreFormer Mexican President Fox Hospitalized with Coronavirus
By KELIN DILLON After testing positive for covid-19, former Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada, who was in office from 2000 to 2006, and his wife Martha Sahagún were hospitalized on Saturday, Aug. 7, to treat the illness. Both Fox and his wife are reportedly stable with no serious symptoms. The former first couple of Mexico had already completed their full
Read moreAMLO’s First 100 Days as Team Mexico Manager
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador(AMLO) is currently preparing his report on his first 100 days in office. The precise day will be Sunday, March 10, but he’s already announced that he will instead blow his own horn on Monday, March 11, during his daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City. Last Wednesday,March
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