By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The growing violence against Mexican politicians, journalists and electoral officials poses a potential threat to the country’s June elections and could mar the credibility of the polling results, the head of the National Electoral Institute (INE) said Friday, May 28. “By definition, the presence of violence constitutes the negation of democracy,” INE President Lorenzo Córdoba said during
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues with his quest to rewrite the Mexican Constitution, undo the energy reform implemented by his predecessor, grasp control of all three powers of government and stack the Congress with even more of his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) cohorts, the National Electoral Institute (INE) is
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By DAMIÁN ESCALANTE Mexico’s Superior Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) on Wednesday, April 21, decided to give the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) precandidate for the governorship of Michoacán Raúl Morón one more chance at a shot for his candidacy, a privilege it did not extend to his Guerrero counterpart, Félix Salgado Macedonio. TEPJF Magistrate Mónica Aralí Soto Fregoso proposed once again
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Last Monday, Dec. 24, promised to be a peaceful Christmas Eve day for Mexico. Then, at mid-afternoon, the rumors of a helicopter crash near the city of Puebla, 160 kilometers east of Mexico City, began as a soft murmur and, by early evening, it was a rumbling roar. The governor of the state of Puebla, Martha Erika Alonso,
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