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
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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
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By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) National Regeneration Movement (Morena) managed to squeeze its controversial ‘plan b’ electoral reforms into passage by the Chamber of Deputies thanks to a last-minute legislative presentation and vote on the matter in the early hours of Wednesday, Dec. 7, Morena’s fast-tracked course of action has received major backlash from
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new 214-page report on Mexico’s June 2021 national and local electoral processes prepared by the Organization of American States (OAS), Mexico’s autonomous electoral organization, the National Electoral Institute (INE) – which is controversially facing potential closure under proposed electoral reforms – “facilitated the holding of the largest elections in the history of Mexico,” a
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By KELIN DILLON Despite widespread protests against Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposal to reform Mexico’s autonomous electoral organization the National Electoral Institute (INE) and opposition parties’ unwillingness to collaborate with AMLO’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) to reach the two-thirds majority in the Chamber of Deputies needed to reform the Mexican Constitution, the Morena-led Chamber of Deputies has
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By KELIN DILLON Following the news that the Mexican government is set to defund Mexico’s autonomous electoral monitoring body, the National Electoral Institute (INE), by 4.4 billion pesos in 2023, members of the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) launched a campaign from Guadalajara’s Akron Stadium to support the INE – aptly titled “Goal for democracy! #I defend the
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Oct. 24, the Venice Commission – an advisory board on constitutional matters for international human rights organization the Council of Europe – published an opinion condemning Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) plans to reform Mexico’s electoral laws, a stance taken following the organization’s review of the situation at the request of the Mexican
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By KELIN DILLON Just one week after hacktivist group Guacamaya leaked the Mexican Secretariat of Defense’s (Sedena) intentions to create its own self-run airline to the public, Mexico’s in-power party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), proposed a legislative reform that would allow the Sedena to run both a commercial airline and operate the nation’s airports at the same time. First
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after the first year anniversary of Mexico City’s deadly Line 12 Metro accident, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has filed a civil suit against Norwegian company DNV for their third-party investigation into the causes of the lethal tragedy – a report which placed the blame for the crash on shoddy construction and tanked Line 12
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, April 20, Mexican legislator and president of the Political Coordination Board of the Senate, Ricardo Monreal – the namesake for one of in-power political party the National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) controversial pieces of legislation – called on his fellow party members during Wednesday’s plenary session to “stop the lynching campaign” against opposition parties for
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