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Judge Orders Restoration of Mexico’s Full-Time School Program

By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Sept. 7, Mexico’s Third District Judge in Administrative Matters of Mexico City, Yadira Medina Alcántara, enacted a nationwide amparo (legal injunction) to restore the country’s Full-Time Schools program (ETC), which was controversially ended in anticipation of the implementing the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) led government’s The School is Ours (LEEN) initiative by the end of

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CompraNet Website Suspension Opens Door to More Corruption

By MARK LORENZANA Anticorruption and transparency groups, business and political organizations, journalists and concerned individuals in Mexico have all called on the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to restore the public-information system CompraNet, which has been “temporarily suspended” since Friday, July 15. CompraNet is an information system in Mexico through which citizens can openly search about

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Sedena Adds Entrepreneurship to Growing List of ‘Duties’

By MARK LORENZANA Since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office nearly four years ago, the Mexican Armed Forces have not only increased their presence on the streets, but have also embarked on a new mission: to become successful entrepreneurs. On April 13 of this year, Mexico’s Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) announced the creation of a

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In-Laws Reveal Gertz’s Illegal Enrichment via Documents to FIU

By KELIN DILLON  Just days after Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) publicly revealed the excessive spending habits of controversial Attorney General (FGR) Alejandro Gertz Manero, details about the documents Gertz’s own in-laws delivered to the FIU outlining his irregular financial practices surrounding some $7.9 million have come to light. The FIU

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