FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 2 - The Untold Story

Remote Mexican Communities Prepare For Election Challenges

As Mexico prepares for its biggest ever election, rehearsals are taking place in Indigenous towns in remote, often insecure regions where voting in the past has not always gone smoothly.

International Business Times · May 21, 2024

Empowering Mexican Citizens in Texas: A Guide to Participating in Mexico's 2024 Elections from Abroad

About 240,000 Mexican citizens in Texas are eligible to vote this summer when voters could elect Mexico's first female president

Latin Times · Feb 26, 2024

How Mexican citizens in Texas can vote in Mexico’s 2024 elections

About 240,000 Mexican citizens in Texas already are eligible to vote this summer, when voters could elect Mexico’s first female president.

The Texas Tribune · Feb 23, 2024

Mexico picks first woman to head electoral body amid political row

Mexican lawmakers on Friday for the first time chose a woman to head the National Electoral Institute (INE), as the electoral authority faces a bruising struggle with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Reuters · Mar 31, 2023

Mexico's top court freezes electoral reform ahead of lawsuit

Mexico's Supreme Court temporarily suspended on Friday parts of a controversial electoral reform pushed by the country's president, while also confirming it will consider a lawsuit from independent electoral institute INE that seeks to overturn it.

Reuters · Mar 25, 2023

Commentary: Why does Mexico’s president want to dismantle the democratic system that elected him?

No president in modern Mexican history has enjoyed as much of a mandate as Andrés Manuel López Obrador. It is a shame he is so determined to invest it in a quest to dismantle the much-admired democratic institution that made his election possible in the first place.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 4, 2023

Mexico protests: fears for democracy prompt mass demonstrations

Electoral reforms proposed by the Mexican government have sparked huge protests across the country. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in more than 100 towns and cities in opposition to legislation passed by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The reform will slash funding to the…

The Conversation · Mar 3, 2023

Mexican protesters see electoral overhaul as a threat to democracy

MEXICO CITY — Juan Manuel Martinez remembers the days when he would vote in Mexico’s elections with no confidence that they were being run fairly.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 27, 2023

Mexicans turn out in droves to protest electoral overhaul, see democracy at risk

Huge crowds gathered in Mexico on Sunday to condemn government moves to shrink the electoral authority as a threat to democracy, in what appeared to be the largest protest so far against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's administration.

Reuters · Feb 26, 2023

Mexico Senate passes electoral system overhaul ahead of vote

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Senate passed a bill that completes the overhaul of the country’s election regulator, a long-sought objective of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador just 16 months ahead of general elections.

Tribune News Service · Feb 23, 2023