By RICARDO CASTILLO The first complete draft for a viable law that allows for military participation in civilian policing activities was unanimously approved by the Mexican Senate last week. That step, however, is only the first move for the bill. Originally, the lower house Chamber of Deputies had sent a draft that had been sent to them by President Andrés
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Baseball aficionado President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was pitched two unrelated labor strikes in a row on the week of Jan. 21. One was in the state of Michoacán concerning teachers, and the other was in the border city of Matamoros launched by maquiladora (in-bond assembly) industry workers. Both strikes were swerving curves that smoked right past batting
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Here’s the sequence of events that led to a market selloff at the Mexican Stock Exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores) that provoked the loss of nearly 6 percentage points and nearly 90 billion pesos over the last week, mostly for banks. First, on Wednesday, Nov. 7, came the not-so-casual news from the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) political party majority leader
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By RICARDO CASTILLO What happened during the first week of the National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) new majority in both Mexican houses of Congress (the Chamber of Deputies and the Chamber of Senators) only served to prove what I had suspected: The Mexican left, now represented by the Morena political party, has been down so long that its members don’t know what to do
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The new Chamber of Deputies president, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, is a master of political discourse and parliamentary procedures. During the “installation” (to use the Mexican term for inauguration) of the two houses of Congress last Saturday, Sept. 1, Porfirio, at age 85, presided over the inaugural process of the 64th Legislature. And in so doing, he showed his experience
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