By KELIN DILLON After controversy arose surrounding Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) candidate for governor of Nuevo León, Adrián de la Garza, allegedly offering cash cards to women in an attempt to buy their votes in the country’s upcoming June elections, reports have revealed that most, if not all, of Mexico’s political parties commonly engage in this practice. The use
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By KELIN DILLON A number of academics, formal electoral officials and analysts have said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) acknowledgement of his own interference into Nuevo León’s electoral process could have serious legal repercussions on Mexico’s leader due to his public and self-aware violations of the Mexican Constitution. On Tuesday, May 12, López Obrador spoke candidly during his
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has already accumulated 13 complaints against him from Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) for infractions relating to electoral interference, based off of his well-documented outbursts against his perceived political opponents during his daily morning press conferences. The registry kept by INE’s Electoral Contentious Technical Unit (UTCE) recorded four of the
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By KELIN DILLON After the cancellation of the controversial candidacy of Guerrero gubernatorial hopeful and alleged rapist Félix Salgado Macedonio by the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF), the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) needed to quickly hunt down a replacement for the post, and apparently found it in Salgado Macedonio’s eldest daughter, Evelyn Salgado Pineda, despite heavy criticism from
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s official. Both Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) that oversees it have now ruled definitively on Wednesday, April 28, that both Félix Salgado Macedonio (with an impressive political portfolio of legal accusations against him, running the gamut from alleged serial rapist to assumed multi-million peso embezzler to probable lackey for drug cartels)
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By KELIN DILLON Tuesday, April 24, was a difficult day for Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his so-called Fourth Transformation, when a multitude of setbacks came crashing down on his plans for Mexico’s future, leaving López Obrador in a fury and his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party in a tailspin. First and foremost, controversial Morena hopefuls
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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 THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS No Vaccines for Doctors Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is busy bragging about his administration’s rollout of its mishmash covid vaccines, claiming that it is on course to inoculate all the nation’s elderly population by the end of April (which it is not; there are numerous cases of eligible Mexicans who registered on the government’s online
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF) decided in a majority vote on Wednesday, Feb. 18, to reverse the decision made by the National Electoral Institute (INE) to prevent public servants, particularly Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), from speaking publicly about Mexico’s electoral process as the nation approaches its midterm elections this June.
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By KELIN DILLON The Complaints Commission of the National Electoral Institute of Mexico (INE) had its warning to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) revoked by the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF) in a ruling on Tuesday, Dec. 15. The INE’s original preventative protection warning came on Friday, Dec. 5, after AMLO continually voiced his distaste for
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