OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Far more contested than the candidacy for the Mexican presidency is the upcoming battle to see who will become the next governor of Mexico City. Both elections will be determined in 2024, and while the results of the presidential poll are pretty much a given — current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Aug. 10, deputies from Mexico’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party, Green Party (PVEM) and Labor Party (PT) convened to remove Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) President Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas as the president of the Senate’s multiparty Government Commission of the Interior, a move expected to be ratified in a plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies
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By MARK LORENZANA Some independent journalists who attend the daily morning press conferences of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) are allegedly paid thousands of pesos by “companies, politicians and unions” to ask planted questions that are “disguised as complaints.” The “Bajo Reserva” column of Mexican daily newspaper El Universal, on Thursday, Aug. 4, reported that YouTube content creator and
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO The dust from Mexico’s June 5 gubernatorial elections has not yet settled, but the government’s political opponents are all set for the next round with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena). Last week, the opposition Va por México coalition — composed of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In keeping with the spirit of international (or is that, intergalactic) Star Wars Day, National Regeneration Movement (Morena) gubernatorial candidate for the Mexican state of Hidalgo Julio Menchaca switched out his leftist hat on Wednesday, May 4, for a full-on Obi Wan Kenobi outfit. Menchaca shared pictures of himself in his elaborate Star Wars
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By KELIN DILLON Following a number of high-profile controversies throughout her term as head of Mexico City’s oldest and most historic district, Cuauhtémoc Mayor Sandra Cuevas has once more invited criticism into her administration as the official burst into, then canceled, a press conference surrounding allegations that Cuevas had been throwing balloons with 500-peso bills glued to them from the
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By KELIN DILLON In a new filing with the Organization of American States (OAS), Mexico’s three-party Va por México alliance consisting of the National Action Party (PAN), the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has accused Mexican organized crime of interfering with the nation’s 2021 electoral process through ballot box stuffing, violence and intimidation,
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By KELIN DILLON In a presidential decree published in Mexico’s Official Gazette of the Federation on Monday, Nov. 22, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) determined all projects and works sanctioned by the nation’s government a matter of national security, drawing widespread criticism toward López Obrador’s continued prioritization of his favored pet projects and subsequent dwindling transparency to the
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS So much for multipartisanship in Mexico’s Congress. Despite promises from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party to “hear out and consider” objections regarding certain clauses within the president’s proposed Federal Expenditure Budget (PEF) for 2022, the 7.88 trillion-peso bill passed the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday, Nov. 14, with
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OPINION By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Mexico’s complex political system has historically stood out from those of other Latin American nations for conforming a multiparty structure composed of a wide variety of political organizations. The favorable conditions promoted by the country’s National Electoral Institute (INE) for the creation of new political parties have been key factors for the evergreen emergence
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