By KELIN DILLON Less than a week after Mexico’s Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) prohibited the federal government and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration from promoting April 10’s upcoming mandate revocation through government propaganda, the Mexican government has come under fire for using military planes, the National Guard and Army generals to
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By KELIN DILLON Just two days after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced his intention to reform Mexico’s electoral system, the Mexican executive took to his daily morning press conference on Wednesday, March 30, to share a new extension to the reform, which would eliminate multi-member councils under the pretext of budget savings. If AMLO’s reform passes in
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) on Wednesday, March 23, passed a ruling endorsing the new Electric Energy Law (LIE), thus eliminating all legal cases filed in México against it. The new ruling was proposed by Supreme Court Justice Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, a former federal deputy from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist
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By KELIN DILLON Following a number of high-profile controversies throughout her term as head of Mexico City’s oldest and most historic district, Cuauhtémoc Mayor Sandra Cuevas has once more invited criticism into her administration as the official burst into, then canceled, a press conference surrounding allegations that Cuevas had been throwing balloons with 500-peso bills glued to them from the
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Despite its short existence in Mexican politics, the country’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, founded in 2011 by the current president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has successfully positioned itself as the country’s leading political force in all levels of government. Its popularity over the course of the last decade has marked
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By KELIN DILLON As 90,000 workers from Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) prepare to vote in the first-ever direct election for leadership for Pemex’s Oil Workers Union (STPRM) on Jan. 31, tensions are heating up between the election’s 25 candidates as the vote grows closer and closer. The union vote stems from recent reforms to Mexico’s labor legislature,
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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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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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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
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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
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