PULSE NEWS MEXICO Former Mexican President Luis Echeverría Álvarez, who served as the country’s head of state from 1970 to 1976, died on Friday, July 8, at home in his sleep, sources close to his family reported Saturday, July 9. Echeverría, who was a populist president from the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) turned 100 on Jan.17. On Nov. 14,
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Today in Mexico, there are three main contenders for the 2024 presidential candidacy of current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party: Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Interior (SeGob) Secretary Adán Augusto López Hernández, and Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón. Of these three, the most viable is
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By MARK LORENZANA Alejandro Moreno, current president of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), declared a value of 5.3 million pesos for 15 real estate properties that he acquired between 2012 and 2015, but the total value of those properties actually amounted to 103 million pesos. According to Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) and the Campeche Prosecutor’s Office,
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum should buckle down to work and stop the illegal early campaigning, demanded Kenia López Rabadán, deputy coordinator of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) caucus in the Mexican Senate. On Friday, July 1, Sheinbaum flew to the southeast Mexican state of Tabasco where her party mate, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Neither Alejandro Moreno, president of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), not Marko Cortés, head of its conservative National Acton Party (PAN), are willing to budge from their positions, despite the fact that both parties registered a resounding defeat in the country’s June 6 gubernatorial elections. That leaves the Mexican people with only one alternative:
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By MARK LORENZANA The soil of the fourth section of Mexico City’s Chapultepec Forest, which is currently being developed as a new tourist area with a number of added attractions, was found to be contaminated with high levels of mercury and arsenic, exceeding the limits allowed by the Official Mexican Standard (NOM) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Chapultepec Forest’s
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who earlier this week contracted covid-19 for the second time, has been formally investigated by the National Electoral Institute (INE) for allegedly engaging in early campaigning for the June 7, 2024, Mexican presidential elections. Through an official letter, the INE asked Sheinbaum on Thursday, June 16, to clarify if she is to
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The PRI under Siege
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexican politics have always been distinguished by their dynamism and unpredictability. Year after year, new political alternatives arise, new players emerge and new ideologies evolve. The centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which for more than seven decades maintained control of the country’s presidency during the 20th century, finally succumbed to a desire for change when
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, June 14, a collective of former presidents of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) – known for its lengthy dominance of Mexican politics and ousted from majority power for only the second time in history by the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) in 2018 – called for the resignation of current PRI president Alejandro “Alito”
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