Prison Breaks Have Increased under López Obrador
In the fray, seven other inmates were killed by the group that organized the escape
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Turbulent Global Economy Will Affect Mexico in 2023
By MARK LORENZANA Expect economic turbulence this year on a global scale, with “obvious effects for Mexico,” according to José Domingo Figueroa, the new president of the Mexican Institute of Finance Executives (IMEF), in an interview with Mexican daily newspaper Reforma on Monday, Jan. 2. Two of the biggest factors that will directly affect Mexico’s economy, according to Figueroa, are
Read morePemex’s Oil-Refining Operations Lose Millions of Pesos per Hour
By KELIN DILLON As Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) continues to bet big on its crude oil refining future through its controversial under-construction Dos Bocas refinery and its official acquisition of the Texan Deer Park refinery at the beginning of 2022, Pemex has seemed to have dealt itself a losing hand. According to new data, Pemex’s refining operations
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Mexican National Electoral Institute (INE), Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has seemingly rescinded on its previous promise to work with the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) to pass a controversial constitutional electoral reform, and is now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 moreOpposition Bloc against AMLO’s Electoral Reform Grows
By MARK LORENZANA The contentious electoral reform spearheaded by deputies from the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has further divided the country, and two groups have emerged thus far: those who have called for a complete transformation — or even scrapping — of the National Electoral Institute (INE), and those who are
Read moreScrapping of Electoral Institute a Threat to Democracy, Says Majority of Mexicans
By MARK LORENZANA Only 13 percent of Mexicans believe that the National Electoral Institute (INE) should be eliminated, 31 percent support some sort of electoral reform and 53 percent think that the INE has been doing a good job so far, according to a telephone survey conducted by Mexican daily newspaper Reforma from Wednesday, Oct. 26, to Saturday, Oct. 29.
Read moreMexican Human Rights Commission Attacks National Electoral Institute
By MARK LORENZANA Amid the electoral reform spearheaded by deputies from the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) of Mexican President Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), which seeks to eliminate Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), the Mexican Human Rights Commission (CDNH) has labeled the INE as a “body that sabotages the will of the people,” and has claimed that “for years it
Read moreMorena Aims to Eliminate Mexico’s National Electoral Institute
By MARK LORENZANA Deputies of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) on Tuesday, Oct. 25, began the legislative process for the electoral reform that seeks to eliminate Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE), which would be replaced by another smaller body whose councilors would be elected by popular vote at the polls. The proposal seeks
Read more72 Percent of Mexico under Cartels, according to Guacamaya Leaks
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Based on the Guacamaya Leaks — a collection of over 4 million confidential Mexican government documents that were released in early October by a group of national hackers exposing how the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been monitoring journalists using Israeli Pegasus spyware and how the military under his regime sold arms to
Read moreDespite Package against Inflation, Price of Tortilla Increases
By MARK LORENZANA Despite the tortilla being one of the 24 products of Mexico’s basic basket included in the Package Against Inflation and Famine (PACIC), its price has increased from May to September of this year. On April 4, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced to the public a new price-control initiative — the PACIC – that established cost protection
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