By KELIN DILLON Throughout the first three years of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, more than 63,310 people in Mexico have been displaced from their homes due to violence across the country, said the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH) on Sunday, Feb. 27. “Despite the fact that this is preliminary
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Members of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Mexico and representatives of Mexico’s Federal Chamber of Deputies paid tribute on Tuesday, Feb. 22, to the hundreds of victims of the Khojaly Massacre, one of the most gruesome and tragic acts of genocide in recent global history. The solemn ceremony, which took place in front of the Khojaly Monument in
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexico’s complex political system has historically stood out from those of other Latin American nations for conforming a multiparty structure composed of a wide variety of political organizations. The favorable conditions promoted by the country’s National Electoral Institute (INE) for the creation of new political parties have been key factors for the evergreen emergence
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By KELIN DILLON Early in the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 27, Mexico’s Senate approved the country’s new Income Package for 2022 in a 66 to 44 vote, without making any changes to the initiative. Though opposition parties presented more than 400 potential issues with the initiative, majority senators from the in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena) rejected their reservations one-by-one. The
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena), in an effort led by the party’s Senator Ricardo Monreal, will now look to reform the country’s General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF), removing all its current members in the process. “It is a very ambitious reform in electoral
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The highly respected British news magazine The Economist compared Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the late slapstick comedian Cantinflas in its Saturday, July 17 edition. “It is a question that might have been devised by Cantinflas, a comic actor who turned the Mexican taste for circumlocution into an absurdist art form,”
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexican federal deputies voted Wednesday, April 28, to remove the conditional immunity afforded to Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca as an government officeholder and to proceed with his impeachment, state senators voted late Friday, April 30, to reinstate that immunity and cancel the impeachment process. The leftist National Regeneration Movement
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Senate passed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial outsourcing bill with near-unanimous approval on Tuesday, April 20, thus limiting the public and private sector’s ability to subcontract and outsource labor for projects. The bill passed through the Senate with 118 votes in favor, two in abstention and none against, allowing the reform to continue with
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XINHUA China’s top legislator, Li Zhanshu, held talks via video link on Tuesday, March 20, with Oscar Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar, speaker of Mexico’s Senate, with both sides pledging enhanced cooperation to promote bilateral relations. Calling China and Mexico “good friends and good partners,” Li said Sino-Mexico relations have developed in an all-around way, as indicated by the sound momentum in
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