By KELIN DILLON Following the Monday, Jan. 31, historic digital vote for the leadership of the state-run Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Oil Workers Union (STPRM), Ricardo Aldana, the STPRM treasurer both under controversial former inion leader Carlos Romero Deschamps and in the present day, won the election in a landslide, with 70 percent of the votes. While there were 25 candidates
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By KELIN DILLON Ignacio Mier Velazco, the in-power National Regeneration Movement’s (Morena) coordinator in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, claimed the country’s opposition parties are attempting to boycott and “derail” August’s public referendum, which Morena proposed to determine whether or not Mexico’s former presidents should be prosecuted for their alleged crimes “Today we see how the rightwing parties, the National Electoral
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s “Va por México” alliance, consisting of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), the left-leaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), and centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), will reportedly go to the Organization of American States (OAS) to denounce the violence in the country surrounding the nation’s elections. The parties claim the drastic uptick in violence before
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Electorate Institute (INE) voted on Friday, Jan. 15, to reduce Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) influence on the upcoming midterm elections this summer by limiting his speech during his daily morning press conferences until the campaign trail for the elections has finished. The vote passed through the INE’s general council with a tally
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