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New Governor of Puebla Named by AMLO
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, Dec. 14, named Sergio Céspedes Peregrina as the new substitute governor of the central state of Puebla. Céspedes Peregrina replaces Miguel Barbosa, who died suddenly on Tuesday, Dec. 13, just one day before he was due to present his fourth annual State of the State Address. Céspedes Peregrina
Read moreMexican Electoral Democracy Dims as ‘Plan B’ Reaches Senate Approval
By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial “Plan B” electoral reform to Mexico’s secondary laws passed through the Mexican Senate on Wednesday, Dec. 14, with 63 votes in favor and 53 votes against, setting the stage for López Obrador to follow through on his long-term intentions to prune back the powers of the country’s autonomous electoral
Read moreSenate Prunes Morena’s ‘Plan B’ Reform as Opposition Cries Foul
By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial ‘plan b’ electoral reform may have only passed through the Chamber of Deputies due to added provisions requested by the National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) allies the Green Party (PVEM) and the Labor Party (PT), the reform’s senatorial debate during the Mexican Senate’s Monday, Dec. 12, session saw some
Read moreThe Mexican Senate’s Hour of Truth
OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE Mexico’s Senate has in its hands the future of Mexican democracy. Will it allow the nation to suffer the greater damage caused by the electoral legislation that was sent by the Chamber of Deputies? Or will it, in this crucial hour, assume its historic duty to represent the interests and will of the Mexican people? Maybe
Read moreAlito: ‘Threaten Me All You Want, but PRI Won’t Vote for Electoral Reform’
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) national leader Alejandro “Alito” Moreno on Friday, Dec. 2, said that despite “threats and political persecution,” his party will vote against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electoral reform, which would essentially eliminate the country’s most-important electoral institution and consolidate power for AMLO’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party. Moreno
Read moreWashington Post Warns that Mexican Democracy Is at Risk
PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposal to “reform” the National Electoral Institute (INE) is a threat to the country’s fragile democracy and is aimed at perpetuating the permanence in power of his left-wing National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, the Washington Post (WP) warned in an editorial on Monday, Nov. 28. In the editorial, which was
Read moreLópez Obrador Floats Potential Pivot to ‘Plan B’ Electoral Reform
By KELIN DILLON Following the fallout from Sunday, Nov. 13’s March for Democracy in Mexico City, which saw hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens show up in support of the autonomous organization the National Electoral Institute (INE) against the constitutional electoral reforms proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), López Obrador has now shifted his approach accordingly and
Read morePRI Suspends Electoral-Reform Support after March for INE
By KELIN DILLON Just one day after the massive Sunday, Nov. 13, march in Mexico City in support of the Mexican National Electoral Institute (INE), Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has seemingly rescinded on its previous promise to work with the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) to pass a controversial constitutional electoral reform, and is now publicly proclaiming its
Read moreINE March Sparks International Support, Much to AMLO’s Chagrin
OPINION By KELIN DILLON After hundreds of thousands of people marched the streets of Mexico City on Sunday, Nov. 13, in protest of constitutional reforms proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to Mexico’s autonomous electoral organization, the National Electoral Institute (INE), the impact of the massive citizen turnout has reverberated throughout the country and across the world
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