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...“We spent more than 40 years building a democratic ladder,” Lorenzo Córdova, former head of INE, said in a speech in Mexico City’s main square....
...Many blame the government of leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador....
...Mexico’s supreme court on Monday declared unconstitutional part of an electoral reform law pushed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which advocates said threatened to undermine the country’s democracy...
...Mexico’s supreme court on Monday declared unconstitutional part of an electoral reform law pushed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador which advocates said threatened to undermine the country’s democracy...
...Nuevo León state said it would use the primary school textbooks with complementary material but not the more “ideological” teacher guide books, while Chihuahua governor Maru Campos has asked children to...
...Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s planned electoral reform would undermine the independence of Mexico’s election commission, a prominent architect of the country’s transition to multi-party democracy has warned...
...Córdova estimated that the reform would lead to the loss of nearly 85 per cent of the agency’s career civil servants....
...“Mexico won, [Nuevo León] won, we all won!” Samuel García, the governor of Nuevo León state where Monterrey is located, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday....
...Samuel Garcia, the governor of Nuevo Leon state where Monterrey is located, tweeted on Tuesday....
...José Manuel Muñoz, its managing director, said protesters outside his workplace had in the past called him a murderer, waving manipulated images of foetuses and praying with rosary beads....
...Córdova faces pressure on other fronts....
...President Andrés Manuel López Obrador this week picked an unusual cause with which to burnish his nationalist credentials: America’s taste for Mexican beer....
...Feijóo took over as his party’s Galicia boss in 2006 from Manuel Fraga, the former Franco-era minister who founded the PP, and has maintained a broad swath of support ever since....
...The Bank of Mexico’s outgoing governor has spoken out about the importance of protecting the bank’s constitutional mandate as the institution faces mounting political pressure from President Andrés Manuel...
...Herrera is seen by markets as more dovish than current governor Alejandro Díaz de León....
...They include Andrew Leon Hanna, a judge of this year’s prize and a winner in 2018....
...Runners-up for the prize were Manuel Hepfer, with his proposal The Cybersecurity Wake-Up Call, about cyber crime, and Melissa Zhang, for Trailblazers, the story of seven changemakers fighting climate change...
...Herrera — the previous nominee — had been seen by markets as more dovish than outgoing governor Alejandro Díaz de León....
...Rodríguez Ceja, who is set to take over from governor Alejandro Díaz de León on January 1, has vowed to fight inflation, not touch international reserves and maintain the bank’s autonomy....
...This year’s finalists are: Manuel Hepfer for The Cybersecurity Wake-Up Call Ines Lee and Eileen Tipoe for Failing the Class Melissa Zhang for Trailblazers Hepfer is a research analyst at ISTARI Global...
...Iturbide lives in the historic Coyoacán neighbourhood of Mexico City, home at various points to Luis Buñuel, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky....
...Yuriria Salvador, structural change co-ordinator at the Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Centre in Tapachula, said the organisation had seen a big increase in the number of Haitians seeking help....
...Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has named Rogelio Ramírez de la O, a consultant who lacks public-sector experience, as a replacement for finance minister Arturo Herrera, who is being moved...
...Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has refused to wear a face mask, has tested positive for coronavirus days after dining with some of the nation’s leading industrialists....
...Leon Goretzka, Germany’s outspoken midfielder, made the anti-homophobic “One Love” sign after scoring the goal that knocked Hungary out of the tournament on Wednesday....
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