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August 29, 2024

Taking a Break

Mexico’s president said on Tuesday he would “pause” relations with the US and Canadian embassies after envoys from both countries denounced his controversial plan to reform the judiciary branch, the Associated Press reported. The plan includes a proposal to fire federal judges, with their replacements being...

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August 22, 2024

Cui Bono?

Federal magistrates in Mexico launched an indefinite strike on Wednesday against plans by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to have judges appointed through popular elections, a reform critics said could endanger the independence of the judicial branch, the Financial Times reported. Obrador, a left-wing populist in...

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June 11, 2024

Hedging Bets

Mexico’s ruling Morena party and its allies secured a super-majority in the lower house of parliament but not the upper house in elections earlier this month, according to party officials, a result that leaves the leftist group short of the two-thirds majority needed to change...

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May 31, 2024

Into the Fire

At least nine people died and around 50 more were injured when a stage collapsed in northern Mexico while presidential candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez was addressing supporters. Máynez of the center-left Citizen Movement was uninjured, the BBC reported. But the incident was the latest ugly...

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March 08, 2024

Fury For the Lost

Protesters smashed the door of Mexico’s presidential palace this week, demanding answers for the 43 college students who went missing a decade ago, a mass disappearance that remains one of the country’s most infamous human rights cases, NPR reported. On Wednesday, demonstrators used a pickup truck...

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February 20, 2024

People Power

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Mexico on Sunday, in a so-called “march for democracy,” with protesters outraged by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed changes to an electoral agency ahead of elections in June, the Associated Press reported. During the marches,...

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January 18, 2024

Trading in Blood

Mexico is the United States’ top trading partner – more than 800 billion dollars’ worth of goods move across the border each year, according to the US government. Some of those goods crossing the border, however, are not welcome – namely guns. Mexican law enforcement officials say...

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December 13, 2023

Down With Bureaucracy

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador plans to eliminate nearly all remaining government oversight and regulatory agencies before leaving office next year, the latest clash between the populist leader and Mexico’s autonomous institutions, the Associated Press reported. On Monday, López Obrador said he would send a...

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November 15, 2023

See No Evil

Thousands marched in Mexico’s capital Mexico City Monday night demanding justice for Jesús Ociel Baena, an influential LGBTQ figure who was found dead at his home in the central city of Aguascalientes after receiving death threats, the Los Angeles Times reported. Baena, the country’s first openly...

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November 08, 2023

Giving Up

Mexico’s Zapatista rebel movement dissolved its “autonomous municipalities” in the country’s south this week, almost 30 years after it launched a brief rebellion demanding greater Indigenous rights, the Associated Press reported. In 1994, the group – officially known as Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) –...

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September 08, 2023

Cheers and Tears

Mexico’s supreme court ruled to decriminalize abortion nationwide, a ruling that marks a major victory for women’s rights advocates in the predominately Catholic country, CNN reported. On Wednesday, the court said in its judgment that national laws prohibiting abortion are unconstitutional because they violate “the human...

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August 29, 2023

Teacher, Preacher

Mexico’s new school textbooks are causing an uproar between leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and opponents who have criticized them as politicized and rife with factual error, a dispute that comes as Mexican students returned to class on Monday, the Financial Times reported. The controversy...

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July 28, 2023

A Little Light

A multinational panel investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from a teachers’ college in Mexico said that while it wasn’t able to determine the students’ fate, the investigation had gathered enough evidence to show that Mexican security forces at the local, state and federal levels...

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July 12, 2023

Not Going Anywhere

Since he began his six-year term of office in December 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the center-left populist has stirred controversy, particularly with his plans to root out corrupt interests and invest in public infrastructure to help the working class. López Obrador, also known...

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July 11, 2023

Fingers In Every Pie

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will transfer control of the capital’s main airport to the armed forces as part of his efforts to combat corruption and mismanagement, amid concerns about the military’s increased involvement in civilian affairs, the Associated Press reported. The plan will see...

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June 23, 2023

Speak No Evil

The Mexican government ordered academics at a state-funded research institute to refrain from posting or sharing criticism of their bosses on social media or via email, a move that researchers said amounted to a gagging order, the Associated Press reported. The new rule is aimed at...

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