LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The party faces more disarray after annulling a disputed leadership vote. The move comes amid its plan to fight a proposal to broaden private investment in the state-owned oil monopoly. The country's main leftist party on Monday faced the possibility of months more disarray after it threw out a disputed leadership vote held four months ago.
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
I’ve been thinking for a while (and started a post on the subject about two months ago, that I never finished) that Beatriz Paredes Rangel may be Mexico’s first woman President. Since taking over as party chair after Roberto Madazo’s disasterous campaign for President in 2006 and the party purge that finally threw out Elba [...]
The Intelligence Daily (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
() -- Police officials in Mexico say drug traffickers have built makeshift car bombs to attack police officers, troops and rivals. Soldiers found two car bombs in a safe house in Culiacán, Sinaloa, July 14. One vehicle was packed with cans of gasoline and another stuffed with gas canisters, and both wired to be detonated by cellphones. (, July 17) On July 17, Mexican naval troops seized a makeshift...
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
There’s no way the “News Divine” tragedy can be undone, and the political ramifications are going to be felt for years (Joel Ortega, the District’s police chief, was a fixture in PRD officialdom, but his career appears to be over. Marcelo Ebrard — who was police chief under AMLO — was also fired after a [...]
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico City's police chief and its top prosecutor resigned after a botched disco raid killed 12 people last month, the capital's mayor said on Tuesday, vowing a major overhaul of public security....
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Source: Reuters By Miguel Angel Gutierrez MEXICO CITY, July 8 (Reuters) - Mexico City's police chief and its top prosecutor resigned after a botched disco raid killed 12 people last month, the capital's mayor said ...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Source: Reuters MEXICO CITY, July 7 (Reuters) - Mexico City police unfairly mistreated the survivors of a bungled disco raid as if they were responsible for the deaths of 12 people, the capital's top prosecutor said ...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Source: Reuters MEXICO CITY, June 2 (Reuters) - Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, the No. 3 political force after its 71-year rule was broken in 2000, could win the most seats in Congress in 2009 ...
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Interesting. It's not unusual for political parties anywhere to be made up of various factions and constituencies, nor to try to balance their tickets among those factions. Most European and Latin American parties (including the Mexican parties) now have gender equity rules — a given percentage of candidates have to be female. One [...]
Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Mexico staggers along, with violence and repression everywhere, the economy wheezing, and no white knight in sight. The PRD remains divided and impotent. A substitute national president (Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo) and secretary general (Martha Dalia Gastélum) were named to permit the National Council to dissolvel. They will serve until alleged voting irregularities in the selection [...]
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Politicians to discuss how to spend future oil income and what relationship Mexico should have with foreign oil companies
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Washington Post: Mexico's giant state-run oil company was once a source of universal pride here. Ballads were sung in its honor, and the money gushed as much as the crude. But the company -- Petróleos Mexicanos , or Pemex -- is not aging well, and it is fast eroding into a creaking, crippled behemoth that even its biggest defenders say must change to survive. In a once-unthinkable move, President Felipe...
The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
What is it with the Coahuila PRI? The PRI is supposed to be making nice with the conservatives at PAN. Instead, we had Coahuila legalizing gay marriage (pushed by the PRI, but opposed by PAN and PRD), and now the PRI Governor, Humberto Moreira Valdés, defending AMLO! The last Coahuila Governor to get really pissed at [...]
JURIST (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
[JURIST] Opposition members of the Mexican Congress have ended their protest against a proposed energy reform bill backed by Mexican President Felipe Calderon, after the ruling party agreed to allow further debate on the bill. Members of Mexico's Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) and several smaller parties had staged a 15-day sit-in over their objections to certain provisions of the proposed oil bill,...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
The PRD will end its parliamentary blockade, paving the way for a discussion of Calderon's energy proposal that would give Pemex more freedom to enter into contracts with foreign investors. President Felipe [...]
