OPINION By MARK LORENZANA In October 2005, Felipe Calderón defeated Santiago Creel in the primary of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), and went on to become the standard bearer for the PAN in the 2006 Mexican general election. Calderón won 58 percent of the vote, while former Interior Secretary Santiago Creel received 33 percent. Former Environment Secretary Alberto Cardenas
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OPINION By KELIN DILLON During his daily morning press conference held on the morning of Thursday, June 30, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) referred to Mexican advertising executive Carlos Alazraki as “a follower of Adolf Hitler’s thought” in spite of Alazraki being Jewish and an active member of Mexico’s Jewish community, sparking criticism over AMLO’s alleged antisemitism. Implying
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, June 14, a collective of former presidents of Mexico’s centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) – known for its lengthy dominance of Mexican politics and ousted from majority power for only the second time in history by the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) in 2018 – called for the resignation of current PRI president Alejandro “Alito”
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The future of Mexico’s centralist National Institutional Party (PRI) will be contingent to a single concept: loyalty. The PRI lost all the governorships in its power in June for two reasons: the depth of its discredit (derived more from its arrogance than from the failure of the governments it led), and the lack of loyalty of
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