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Frontera NorteSur  New fires are steadily igniting in different corners of the Mexican political system. As the country plunges head-long toward the July 1 elections, clashes over candidacies, bouts of negative campaigning and a new spying scandal are lighting up the political scene. A bizarre video game with a barely concealed subliminal message, “Super Ernesto,” [...]

By Salvador Guerrero WASHINGTON– The United States isn’t the only country facing a contentious presidential election this year. Mexico will elect a new president in July, and some experts think the National Action Party (PAN) will be ousted from office by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which held power for 71 years before the PAN [...]

Frontera NorteSur  It’s full-tilt political boogie in the US and Mexico. Media in both nations are saturated with interviews, profiles and satires of the candidates. Cable blasts virtually nonstop news of the Republican primaries and the ones for president and Mexico City mayor south of the border. In 2012 the neighboring countries will experience national, [...]

Se Anuncia Horario Especial del Módulo del Instituto Federal electoral en el Consulado para Registrarse en la Lista de Nominal de Electores residentes en el Extranjero  El Consulado General de México informa que el módulo del Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE) que funciona en sus instalaciones tendrá un horario especial esta semana para atender solicitudes de [...]

Frontera NorteSur     What began as a chorus of loud denunciations ended in a round of resigned whimpers. The discourse of Michoacan gubernatorial candidate Maria Luisa “Cocoa” Calderon, who seriously challenged the legitimacy of the November 13 state election, soon took a radical turn when the sister of President Felipe Calderon and the standard-bearer of [...]

By David Bacon MEXICO CITY— Last week Mexican President Felipe Calderon gave the fifth state of the nation speech since his (many say fraudulent) election in 2006. He didn’t have an easy time finding a positive spin for the escalating toll exacted by his war on drug gangs — 50,000 dead, mostly innocent civilians, in [...]

Por Mariana Martinez      Tres cuartos de la población de México dice estar descontento con el rumbo que lleva el país, menos de la mitad de los mexicanos creen que el gobierno este teniendo avances en contra del narcotráfico, y casi un tercio considera que no solo no hay avances sino serios retrocesos.     Esto [...]

Frontera NorteSur     In the closing days of the campaign for the key July 3 gubernatorial election in Mexico’s most populated state, migration reemerged as one of the local issues. At a June 23 meeting in the Mexico state town of Tonatico, center-left candidate Alejandro Encinas Rodriguez agreed to a five-point action plan on migrant-related [...]

By Mariana Martinez     The black Maserati seemed on a quest to reunite with his owner.     He followed his saga all Tuesday long and didn’t rest until he was back at his mansion by the Caliente Race Track.     All night long the black Maserati was parked in the dusty road leading to Hongo [...]

Por Mariana Martinez     El Maserati negro pareció seguir a su dueño durante todo el martes y no descansar hasta llevarlo a la mansión en los terrenos del Hipódromo Caliente.     Primero estuvo estacionado entre el polvo, afuera del penal del Hongo donde esperaban sus fieles seguidores a la luz de las fogatas y un [...]

By Mariana Martínez     16 military units with 50 soldiers aboard, was the convoy needed to escort businessman and politician Jorge Hank Rhon to the 9th district court, where he was formally charged with having a large number of prohibited weapons in his possession.     Outside, a small number of supporters waited for him and screamed [...]

By José Luis Sierra New America Media     Former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Wednesday that “nobody is going to be able to stop drug trafficking” from Mexico to the United States. He insisted that the only way to solve the problem would be for his country to legalize the consumption of drugs, while the [...]

Commentary: By John Flores    Late on the night of March 31, 1911—100 years ago this spring—the great Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata led a group of armed men in commandeering a police station in Villa de Ayala, a small town in southern Mexico. The group disarmed the police and held an emergency meeting in [...]

Commentary: By Laura Carlsen    The presidential meeting this week between Mexico’s Felipe Calderon and Barack Obama looked from the outside like a hastily arranged exercise in damage control. But while most analysts emphasized the tensions between the neighboring nations going into the meeting, the real crisis behind the visit was the failure of what [...]

Frontera NorteSur     As recent comments by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano reaffirm, the Obama administration is wagering that Mexican President Felipe Calderon can largely dismantle powerful organized crime groups in the 22 months the conservative leader has left in office. But in Mexico, the calendar operates in [...]

Frontera NorteSur     While the US busied itself preparing for the annual Thanksgiving feast, Mexico took a step back into its own history. November 20 marked the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, the world’s first great socio-political upheaval of the last century, as well as the beginning of a process that shaped the identity [...]

México del Norte Jorge Mújica Murias   … pues del gobierno de México, ¡quién más!     Ora resulta que el que ha fallado para que haya reforma migratoria en Estados Unidos es el gobierno mexicano. Si se hubiera puesto las pilas, desde hace chico rato ya hubiéramos tenido reforma de este lado. Eso parece decir el [...]