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☆ Protesters storm Mexico's Senate, pausing judicial reform debate
  + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +2 min
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Senate paused debate of a controversial judicial overhaul on Tuesday after protesters broke into the building, adding drama to already tense discussions of the reform, which critics fear could undermine the country’s rule of law. Lopez Obrador and President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum have vigorously defended the reform as essential for holding judges accountable and reducing corruption. As senators debated the reform, opposition lawmakers accused the ruling bloc of underhanded tactics to secure the necessary two-thirds majority. But speculation is mounting that opposition PAN Senator Miguel Angel Yunes has switched allegiance to the ruling bloc over the reform. While the Senate was in session, Yunes requested medical leave in a letter read by the secretary of the Senate’s board of directors.
Persons: Jose Gerardo Fernandez, ”, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Lopez Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum, Critics, Morena, Miguel Angel Yunes, Yunes Organizations: MEXICO CITY —, PAN, NBC Locations: MEXICO, United States, Canada
☆ Mexican Senate cancels trusts for judiciary worth over $800 mln
  + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
The Senate, controlled by Lopez Obrador's leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) and its allies, approved the measure to do away with the trusts worth some 15 billion pesos ($820 million). Last week, the lower house of Congress voted to wind up the trusts, whose funds are due to be absorbed by the government. Mexico's Supreme Court said this month the elimination of the trusts will affect workers in the judiciary, pointing to their pensions and other social security benefits. "How does the judiciary benefit the Mexican people, or the majority of Mexicans? Critics of Lopez Obrador see the judiciary as a bulwark against his efforts to concentrate power.
Persons: Henry Romero, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Lopez Obrador's, Lopez Obrador, hock, it's, Dave Graham, Natalia Siniawski, Michael Perry Organizations: Supreme, REUTERS, MEXICO CITY, Regeneration, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO
☆ Powerful Mexican oil union boss who became symbol of corruption dies at 79
  + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Dave Graham | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Local media reported that Romero Deschamps died of a heart attack on Thursday. Days earlier, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that Romero Deschamps was under criminal investigation for corruption, allegations which he denied and was never prosecuted for. Romero Deschamps was included in a list of the "10 Most Corrupt Mexicans" published by Forbes in 2013. He, however, rode out scandals even as other top Mexican union leaders fell foul of the law, including the former boss of the powerful teachers' union, Elba Esther Gordillo, who was arrested on fraud charges early in 2013. While a government audit later revealed anomalies covering 2.3 billion pesos ($188.97 million) in the so-called Pemexgate scandal, Romero Deschamps himself escaped unscathed.
Persons: Carlos Romero Deschamps, Petroleos, Edgard Garrido, Romero Deschamps, Pemex, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Enrique Pena Nieto, Elba Esther Gordillo, Francisco Labastida, Paulina, Jose Carlos, Ferrari Enzo, Lopez Obrador, Dave Graham, Marguerita Choy Organizations: REUTERS, MEXICO CITY, Local, Institutional Revolutionary Party, Senate, Pemex, Forbes, Reforma, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO, Latin America, Mexico's, Tampico, Tamaulipas, Hidalgo, Cancun, Europe, Miami
☆ Mexico says Texan buoys in Rio Grande breach water treaty
  + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
MEXICO CITY, July 14 (Reuters) - A floating barrier of orange buoys put in the Rio Grande by the Texan government to hinder migrants crossing into the U.S. violates a water treaty and may encroach on Mexican territory, incoming Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said on Friday. "We have sent a diplomatic letter (to the U.S.) on 26 June because in reality what it is violating is the water treaty of 1944," Barcena told reporters in Mexico City, referring to the Mexican Water Treaty between the U.S. and Mexico that covers the use of water from the Colorado, Tijuana and Rio Grande rivers. On Friday, the Texan government said in a statement that it had this week begun installing the "new floating marine barriers along the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass." Earlier this month, four migrants drowned in the Rio Grande. Last September nine migrants died and 37 were rescued as they tried to cross the rain-swollen river near Eagle Pass.
Persons: Alicia Barcena, Barcena, Greg Abbott, Stephen Eisenhammer, Sandra Maler Organizations: MEXICO CITY, U.S, U.S . State Department, Texas, Mexico's Senate, Thomson Locations: MEXICO, Rio Grande, Mexico City, Mexico, Colorado, Tijuana, Eagle, Texas
☆ Mexico government to challenge Supreme Court suspension of electoral reform
  + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/2] A general view of the Supreme Court building where Ministers elected a new President for the Supreme Court, in Mexico City, Mexico January 2, 2023.REUTERS/Henry Romero/File PhotoMEXICO CITY, March 26 (Reuters) - The Mexican government said Sunday it would challenge the Supreme Court's temporary suspension of parts of a controversial electoral reform pushed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The Supreme Court on Friday halted parts of the reform, which was a scaled-down version of a failed constitutional reform originally sought. The court also confirmed it will consider a lawsuit from independent electoral institute INE that seeks to overturn it. The Supreme Court's statement said in its statement Friday that the case involved "the possible violation of citizen's political-electoral rights." The government has said the reform seeks to reduce the bureaucratic costs of elections and strengthen democratic principles.
☆ Marijuana legalization has stalled in Mexico, but farmers and cartels are still making big plans to profit off a new market
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Luis Chaparro | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
An effort to legalize marijuana in Mexico has stalled after several years of debate by lawmakers. But Mexican cartels and independent growers are still preparing to cater to a new domestic market. The Sinaloa Cartel in particular is drawing business lessons from marijuana dispensaries in the US. At the current price for weed, Margarita gets roughly $25 a kilo. A marijuana legalization activist smokes marijuana in front of the San Lazaro Legislative Palace in Mexico City in October 2022.
☆ Five women found dead in violent Mexican state
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
MEXICO CITY, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Five women were found dead in a central Mexican state suffering from a wave of violent crime against women, local authorities said on Friday. Their bodies were found on Friday morning in the city of Cuautla, Morelos, which borders Mexico City. The women were likely killed in disputes linked to organized crime, Morelos' attorney general Uriel Carmona told news network Milenio. The news comes after Morelos and Mexico City began investigating the fate of Ariadna Fernanda Lopez, a 27-year-old woman who was last seen alive on Sunday evening in Mexico City, and was found dead on a highway also in Morelos on Monday. Reporting by Mexico City Newsroom; Editing by Muralikumar AnantharamanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ U.S.-Mexico nuclear cooperation agreement enters into force
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
MEXICO CITY, Nov 2 (Reuters) - A bilateral agreement on nuclear energy between the United States and Mexico entered into force, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday, adding that it will enhance cooperation on energy security. The agreement is the "first bilateral agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation" between the two countries, the department said in a statement. "This agreement will further strengthen the U.S.-Mexico relationship and deepen our cooperation on energy security," State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Twitter. Mexico and the United States signed the agreement in 2018, but Mexico's Senate did not give its approval until March. Energy Minister Rocio Nahle has described nuclear energy as "clean, safe, constant and profitable."
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