The View from the North: It’s Now or Never on the Debt Ceiling
According to news reports, there are 24 Republican senators who want to do something about the congressional impasse
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AMLO’s Controversial Electoral Reform Is Threat to Democracy
OPINION By KELIN DILLON After years of repeated talk about reforming Mexico’s electoral system, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Thursday, April 28, that he would be sending his new electoral reform legislation to Mexican Congress, which would replace the autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) with an organization called the Institute of National Elections and Consultation, as
Read moreUS Senators Admonish AMLO for Accepting Maduro
By KELIN DILLON In a letter addressed to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), U.S. Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott of Florida expressed their disappointment in López Obrador for accepting contested Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro into Mexico, rather than extraditing him to the United States where he faces criminal charges. Since March 2020, Maduro has had pending
Read moreMorena Looks to Purge Mexico’s Electoral Institute
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
Read moreAMLO Calls Meeting with US Senators Cordial, Friendly
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) defined a meeting at the National Palace with five U.S. Republican and Democrat senators on Monday, July 5, as “cordial and friendly.” According to a tweet sent out by the president Monday night, during the roughly one-hour meet, he and the senators discussed a series of bilateral
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