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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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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By KELIN DILLON Throughout the last year under the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Mexico’s Secretariat of Defense (Sedena) has increased its spending on bidless contracts by 64 percent, with many of the awarded contracts going to recently created companies or enterprises billed at a residential address. In 2020, Sedena directly distributed some 6.3 billion pesos
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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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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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Four former national heads of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) warned over the weekend that voting for leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform would constitute a step backwards for Mexico and the possible extinction of the party itself. “What should it matter if the PRI is in government or
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electric reform continues to receive pushback, including the recent rejection of the proposal by 18 members of the Institutional Revolution Party (PRI), the executive and his own party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) have acquiesced to being open toward changes to the reform. Despite this newfound receptivity toward
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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 KELIN DILLON Eight elected borough mayors from Union of Mayors of Mexico City (UNE-CDMX), all of which come from parties opposing current head of Mexico City Claudia Sheinbaum’s own leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena), were beaten and attacked by city police after they approached the capital’s local congress on the morning of Monday, Aug. 30. Mayor-elect of Álvaro Obregón
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