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Financial Time (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The Institutional Revolutionary Party captures crucial state legislature seats and mayoral results in a positive sign for the party in next year's vital mid-term congressional elections
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Mexican President Felipe Calderón, who has made fighting drug traffickers the centerpiece of his administration, proposed legislation on Thursday that would decriminalize the possession of small quantities of cocaine and other drugs for addicts who agreed to undergo treatment. A similar measure two years ago provoked strong opposition from the United States and was eventually dropped. Under [...]
Global News Blog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tuesday, September 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Diego Cevallos MEXICO CITY, Sep 30 (IPS) - Dozens of indigenous people walking naked along a main avenue in support of their demand for land, or thousands of stick-wielding teachers blocking main streets at rush hour, are [...]
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
A rough day for Secretary of Governance (Home Secretary or Homeland Security chief) iJuan Camilo Mouriño, Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna and Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora yesterday. All three made public promises to resign if they couldn’t resolve the crime issue within a reasonable time period. David Agren covered the trio’s appearance before the [...]
People Daily (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Mexico's leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) unanimously agreed on Sunday to veto the energy reform proposed by the government of Mexican President Felipe Calderon. During its 11th National Congress, the PRD (left) passed a resolution to instruct their legislators and officers to in no case support the federal government's presumed campaign to privatize the state-run Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex)....
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
I don’t know any more about this than anyone else, but a few preliminary thoughts. As everyone knows by now, someone threw a hand grenade into the crowd at Gov. Leonel Godoy’s Independence Day Grito, “killing at least seven people, injuring more than 100 others and casting a pall over a country that has experienced unprecedented [...]
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
1 September is a quasi-holiday in Mexico. At least the banks are closed. It was the only time the President had to show up before Congress and used to be quite a show… the TV coverage of the Senators and Deputies arriving (in buses… it’s a modest country in some ways) was covered like the [...]
Angry White Kid (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
A polling place in Oaxaca for the Aug. 10 PRD-initiated referendum on the privatization of PEMEX.My translation, with the revisions of Machetera and annotations of Fausto Giudice, of a column by Victor Manuel Barcelo Rodriguez, an adviser to the PRI...
Some Have Hats (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Majority on Mexican Supreme Court Endorse Constitutionality of Abortion Law By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MEXICO CITY, August 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A majority of justices serving on the Supreme Court of Mexico have now stated their support for the constitutionality...
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
David Agren left a correction to my 20-August post (”Throwing the bums out…“) pointing out that the dissidents within PEMEX are not likely PAN supporters. They could be underwritten by PRD, which would still make sense, the point being that union fights are proxy wars between various political factions. David knows more about the chincanery of [...]
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet, but there may be a huge change coming on the crime/justice/security front. Somewhat true to form (and ghoulishly), Televisa and PAN political spokesmen seized on the recent kidnappping and murder of a milionaire’s teen-aged son to foment demonstrations and suggest that insecurity and kidnapping are somehow more serious [...]
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
More than a year after abortion was decriminalized in this capital city, abortion opponents hope the Mexican Supreme Court will reverse the legislation in a decision that could reverberate across Mexico and Latin America.
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 : A non-binding referendum organized by the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) on Mexican President Felipe Calderóns proposed energy reform was held Sunday, July 27 in the Federal District of Mexico City, as well as in nine out of the 31 Mexican states. Behind Calderóns reform is the clear aim of dismantling the state-owned oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX).
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Lex Luthor’s eviller twin, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, has been making the rounds lately, promoting his latest tome, “How Zedillo and Fox Fucked Up My Plans” “The Lost Decade” (La década perdida), in which he presents an alternative view of recent Mexican history. Salinas blamed former presidents Ernesto Zedillo and Vicente Fox for allowing Mexico to [...]
The Economist (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
The left's strange disarray ONLY two years ago, Mexico's centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) came within a couple of hundred thousand votes of winning the presidency. It was the party's best result since its foundation two decades ago. Yet far from capitalising on this strength, the PRD seems to have lost much of its public appeal. When it held a much-trumpeted unofficial referendum...
