By KELIN DILLON Following the fallout from Sunday, Nov. 13’s March for Democracy in Mexico City, which saw hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens show up in support of the autonomous organization the National Electoral Institute (INE) against the constitutional electoral reforms proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), López Obrador has now shifted his approach accordingly and
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By KELIN DILLON Despite demands from Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and current majority in the congressional lower house, that it put an end to apparent “privileges” by the autonomous organization the National Electoral Institute (INE), Morena members serving in the Chamber of Deputies have still been enjoying the major
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By KELIN DILLON Just more than a week after Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) opened an investigation into six councilors of the autonomous National Electoral Institute (INE) on Dec. 24 for their role in postponing the proposed revocation mandate, INE President Lorenzo Córdova requested the FGR to close the investigation, claiming it was based on “clearly nonexistent alleged
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By KELIN DILLON After striking union workers reached the front steps of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, Dec. 14, legislators suspended their in-progress session and fled the scene as the workers attempted to enter the plenary hall. The dissenting laborers were acting in protest of the administration of the Chamber of Deputies’ Dec. 13 decision to remove income tax
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