INE and Mexican Government Clash Over Absentee Ballots
The INE approved 180,686 foreign voter applications in total – or 82 percent of the overall application pool.
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Latin American Agro Summit Suspended Due to AMLO’s Health
Despite the fact that the government has maintained that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is in “good health” and will likely be declared covid-19-free later this week, the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat announced that the First High-Level Meeting for the Agri-Food Integration of Latin America had been suspended due to the president’s contagion
Read moreWhy Ebrard Is ‘The One’
OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Today in Mexico, there are three main contenders for the 2024 presidential candidacy of current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party: Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, Interior (SeGob) Secretary Adán Augusto López Hernández, and Foreign Relations (SRE) Secretary Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón. Of these three, the most viable is
Read moreThieves Steal Water in Nuevo León amid Worsening Drought
By MARK LORENZANA As an extreme drought grips Nuevo León, a state in the northeast region of Mexico — making water increasingly scarce — thieves have resorted to illegally tapping the biggest water reservoir in the state, El Cuchillo Dam. The water crisis in Nuevo León has worsened in the last six months that its state government, headed by Governor Samuel García, has
Read moreMexico Moves 204 Flights from AICM to AIFA
By KELIN DILLON On the tail end of yet another controversial weekend for Mexico’s airspace, a number of national airline carriers servicing the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) have agreed to move a total of 204 flights to the nearby (and newly constructed) Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA). As of now, the AIFA only services 13 daily operations. The initiative
Read moreMexico’s First Great Leftist Force, the Party of the Democratic Revolution
By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexican politics have been radically redefined in the last decade. The three great political bastions that historically had disputed the leadership and hegemony of the country went from an almost-lifetime splendor and permanence to a general crisis that has very nearly caused their dissolution. One of the oldest parties in modern Mexican history is the
Read moreAMLO Offers Protection to Colosio’s Alleged Killer for Information
By KELIN DILLON If Mario Aburto, the confessed killer of Mexican politician Luis Donaldo Colosio, has further information about the 1994 incident’s true events, he will be offered protection, said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on the morning of Thursday, Oct. 28. “If Aburto and the family have something to say about his legal process that reveals another
Read moreMexico to Relaunch National Airline Mexicana de Aviación
By KELIN DILLON Eleven years after its closure, the Mexican federal government has announced its intentions to reopen Mexicana de Aviación for service as a passenger airline, with operations to be based out of the controversial and still-under-construction Santa Lucía airport. Former Mexicana workers who have not yet been liquidated from their posts will be invited back to work with
Read moreLegal Migration to Mexico Surges in 2021
By KELIN DILLON While the United States has made it increasingly harder for foreigners, Mexicans included, to migrate legally to the country, Mexico in turn has experienced a massive influx in legal foreign residents. Between January and May of 2021, more than 28,631 permanent resident cards (TRP) were issued, almost 10,000 more than the same time frame in the year
Read moreMissing Persons Commissioner Gunned Down in Guanajuato
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Javier Barajas Piña, a member of the Commission for the Search for Disappeared Persons in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, was assassinated on Sunday, May 30, authorities reported the following day. No details of the shooting were released, nor were any suspects detained, according to Guanajuato police. “The commission members express our deep
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