Thousands Show Up at Zócalo to Defend INE
Protesters also left flowers at the entrance of the SCJN, as a symbol of the confidence they have in the justices
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A City without Laws
OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The crisis with Mexico City’s Superior Court of Justice is a surging problem which, in addition to leading to a serious traffic jam, could lead to a reduction in private investment, economic decline, higher unemployment in a city with already too few jobs and ungovernability in the country’s capital. It could also derail Mexico City
Read moreAMLO Issues Marching Orders, Turnout Less than Spectacular
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite orders from the powers that be (make that, power that be) for all government employees to put on their marching shoes and show their “solidarity” for the leftist government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in his egocentric march of self-adornment on Sunday, Nov. 27, and despite reports from Tepito merchants and others
Read moreAMLO’s Electoral March to Be Met with Peaceful Protest for the INE
By KELIN DILLON As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to promote his Nov. 27 Mexico City march in favor of the his controversial electoral reform, opponents of AMLO’s proposed changes to Mexico’s autonomous electoral organization the National Electoral Institute (INE) – who already showed up in an estimated 500,000-plus strong turnout at the Nov. 13 Mexico City
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Mexican National Electoral Institute (INE), Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has seemingly rescinded on its previous promise to work with the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) to pass a controversial constitutional electoral reform, and is now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
Read moreIsraeli Embassy in Mexico Vandalized by Ayotzinapa Protesters
PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Israeli Embassy in Mexico was vandalized late Wednesday, Sept. 21, during what started off as a peaceful protest by family members and supporters of 43 missing Ayotzinapa rural teacher’s college students who disappeared in the coastal state of Guerrero in 2014. The protest was organized just days before the eighth anniversary of the students’ disappearance and
Read moreDos Bocas Workers Protest Unjustified Dismissals
By KELIN DILLON Just 12 days after the “inauguration of the first construction stage” of Mexico’s controversial Dos Bocas refinery, approximately 200 laborers contracted to work on the Tabasco-based project protested their unjustified dismissal from the project outside of the under-construction refinery’s gate on Wednesday, July 13. According to the protestors, the workers were initially hired by Control Ingeniería y
Read moreWomen’s March Takes Mexico City on International Women’s Day
By KELIN DILLON More than 75,000 women took to the streets of Mexico City in protest of violence against women on Tuesday, March 8 – International Women’s Day – in what’s become a requisite march for the country’s feminists on the global holiday, commonly known in the nation as ‘8M’. While government officials like Mexican President Andrés Manuel López
Read moreCTNE Pressures AMLO to Renegotiate Teachers’ Demands
By KELIN DILLON On Saturday, Aug. 28, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) SUV was held at a standstill by protesting members of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CTNE) teachers’ union for the second day in a row while on tour in Chiapas, with the group demanding for him to listen to their demands and reopen negotiations. López
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