OPINION By ÁLVARO SANTOS Part of an ongoing series from the Wilson Center* The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was born from a threat and a promise. The threat was to eliminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) altogether despite the huge regional market it helped create. The promise was to make that market more beneficial to the United States, and,
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Tamaulipas reporter Antonio de la Cruz from the Ciudad Victoria newspaper Expreso was shot dead on Wednesday, June 29, while leaving his home, becoming the 12th journalist to be killed so far this year in Mexico. De la Cruz, who had been working at Expreso for more than 25 years, was, at that time, accompanied by his
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO With the shooting death of Noé Ornelas Sanguino, mayor of the town of Villa Jiménez, in the northwestern Mexican state of Michoacán, whose body was found on an abandoned stretch of highway on Monday, June 27, there have been at least 59 mayors and municipal alderman murdered so far under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Republican Mayra Flores of Texas became the first Mexican-born woman to be sworn into the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, June 22. Flores, born in Burgos, Tamaulipas, before becoming a U.S. citizen, won a special election in Texas’ 34th Congressional District to fill the seat vacated by former Democratic Republican Filemon Vela earlier this month. This constituted the
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who earlier this week contracted covid-19 for the second time, has been formally investigated by the National Electoral Institute (INE) for allegedly engaging in early campaigning for the June 7, 2024, Mexican presidential elections. Through an official letter, the INE asked Sheinbaum on Thursday, June 16, to clarify if she is to
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By MARK LORENZANA As a result of their poor turnout in Mexico’s gubernatorial elections on Sunday, June 5, in which candidates of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) failed to reach the mandatory 3 percent of the vote in several constituencies, both parties will lose their registration as local parties in those areas,
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By KELIN DILLON Following Mexico’s Sunday, June 5, elections, held throughout the states of Aguascalientes, Durango, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, and Tamaulipas, there have been at least 59 complaints filed with the Electoral Crimes Prosecutor’s Office (Fisel) throughout the entire electoral process and a pending judicial appeal surrounding the results in Tamaulipas, showing Mexico’s well-documented electoral issues still persist. The
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) late Sunday, June 6, issued the preliminary results of the “rapid count” of exit polls in the elections of the states of Aguascalientes, Durango, Hidalgo, Tamaulipas, Oaxaca and Quintana Roo, with little in the way of surprises. According to those results, the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, which was founded by
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO In the eyes of some pundits, the current trend in Mexican elections is the result of a democratic procedure, but for others, the imminent results of the country’s midterm elections on Sunday, June 5, is an ominous path to a return of a one-party system. If all current forecasts are correct, the “awesome threesome” political coalition
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO For four Mexican opposition political parties, it is the lull before the storm, scheduled for Sunday, June 5, when elections for governor will be held in six states. For sure the leaders of those parties are keeping up the competitive spirit, claiming the candidates they support will come out victors, a hope contenders claim is wishful
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