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Va por México Denounces Persecution of Anaya, Opposition

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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Va Por México alliance, which consists of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), denounced its opposition, the in-power leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) for using the country’s judicial branch to persecute its opponents and critics, specifically referring to the new charges

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Censureship and Scandal in Mexico’s Foreign Service

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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER It’s a well-known fact of life: What starts out badly inevitably ends up worse. In the case of Mexico’s now-globally spotlighted Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE), it all began on Saturday, Aug. 7, with the abrupt and unjustified dismissal of renowned author and historian Jorge F. Hernández from his post as the cultural attaché of Mexico’s embassy

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Va Por México Denounces Cartel Meddling in Elections

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By KELIN DILLON The members of the Va Por México alliance, which consists of centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), announced they would be going to the Organization of American States (OAS) on Monday, Aug. 23 to denounce the involvement of organized crime in Mexico’s electrol

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The Last Gasping Breaths of Mexico’s National Action Party

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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The president of Mexico’s conservative National Action Party (PAN), Marko Cortés, was recently faced with the dilemma of having to choose between being the key to the party’s transition in a post-Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Mexico or watching the it surrender its last semblance of political relevancy after having been severely battered in the 2012

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Mexico’s Referendum Results Keep Getting Uglier

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It was bad enough that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted public consulta (referendum) on Sunday, Aug. 1, to decide whether to prosecute his predecessors for their alleged misdeeds was a total disaster in terms of turnout (early estimates put eligible voter participation at between 7.07 and 7.74 percent; the final count was 7.11 percent),

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Former Guerrero Governor, Head of PRI Dead at 65

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Former Guerrero Governor René Juárez Cisneros, who also served as coordinator of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) bench in the Chamber of Deputies, died Sunday, July 25, at the age of 65, according to local authorities. Although the Guerrero government did not report the cause of death, Juárez Cisneros had tested positive for

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Mexican Auto Parts Exports Soar in First Quadmester

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s auto parts exports increased by 27.5 percent in the first four months of 2021, compared to the same period in 2020, according to the National Auto Parts Industry Association (INA). The surge — the largest increase since 2010 — was primarily the result of the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which

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Washington Post Says Mexico Is Spying on Journalists

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to deny that the Mexican government is spying on journalists and opposition leaders, a report published on Sunday, July 18, in the Washington Post would seem to contract his claims. The article — written by Dana Priest, Craig Timberg and Souad Mekhennet in cooperation with 16

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The Economist Compares AMLO to Cantinflas

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The highly respected British news magazine The Economist compared Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the late slapstick comedian Cantinflas in its Saturday, July 17 edition. “It is a question that might have been devised by Cantinflas, a comic actor who turned the Mexican taste for circumlocution into an absurdist art form,”

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