By MARK LORENZANA At a Christmas party that I attended with my wife here in Mexico City on Sunday, Dec. 4, organized by the Philippine Embassy in Mexico, something caught my attention: not just the Filipino food, which my Mexican wife and I both enjoyed immensely, or the fun games and activities, but the Filipino choir that sang during
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By KELIN DILLON After selling off a number of luxury vehicles seized from the hacker organization the Bandidos Revolutions Team in 2019, Mexico’s National Institute to Return the Stolen to the People (Indep) is now facing lawsuits for auctioning off the cars – most of which were made by high-end manufacturers such as Ferrari, McLaren, Lamborghini and Mercedes-Benz – without
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By MARK LORENZANA The State of Mexico (EdoMéx), Baja California, Veracruz, Puebla and Querétaro are the Mexican states that lead the 2022 Impunity Index in Mexico, which was prepared by the Center for Studies on Impunity and Justice (CESIJ), the University of the Americas Puebla and the International Academic Council. The five aforementioned states are followed by Jalisco, Sinaloa, Aguascalientes, Chiapas and
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By MARK LORENZANA Club América and the Monterrey Rayados both punched their tickets to the Liga MX semifinals on Saturday, Oct. 15, after dispatching their respective opponents — Club Puebla and Cruz Azul — in convincing fashion. América defeated Puebla 5-1 on the evening of Saturday, in a match that came after the Mexico City-based club similarly humiliated their foe,
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By MARK LORENZANA Club América is already one of the most popular — and most decorated — soccer clubs in the history of the Liga MX, but the Mexico City-based team added another feather to its cap: It just notched its ninth consecutive win, 2-1, on Saturday, Sept. 10, against home team Club Necaxa at the Victoria Stadium in the
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By KELIN DILLON According to the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography’s (Inegi) annual National Survey on the Dynamics of Relationships in Households 2021 (Endireh), more than 70.1 percent of Mexico’s 50 million-plus women over the age of 15 have experienced at least one violent situation throughout the past 12 months, statistics reflective of Mexico’s enduring femicide crisis. The
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OPINION By MARK LORENZANA Veteran Mexican-American journalist Jorge Ramos, in an article for the now-defunct U.S. political and opinion website Splinter, wrote about the curious Mexican political custom of “el dedazo,” which, when translated roughly, means “to point a finger.” “As a young man, I was obsessed with the political phenomenon of ‘el dedazo’ in Mexico. It didn’t make sense
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Despite initial claims by National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party leader Mario Delgado to the contrary, the first national internal elections of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s leftist party on Saturday, July 30, and Sunday, July 31, were marred by claims of ballot stuffing, ballot box burnings and outright acts of violence, with videos of numerous of
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OPINION By JERRY HAAR Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* The second decade of the 21st century increasingly mirrors the world’s political and economic environment of a century before when nationalism, protectionism and isolationism occupied center stage in the global political economy. The key drivers of economic growth and development — neoliberal economic policies and free market-oriented institutional
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By MARK LORENZANA The Black Hawk helicopter of Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) that left 14 sailors dead after crashing in Los Mochis in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa on Friday, July 15, was the sixth helicopter to have figured in a crash under the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) since 2019. According to
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