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The current state of Mexico in regard to LGBTQ+ rights is overall heading in a positive direction. On April 27th, 2022, Jalisco became the 27th state to legalize same-sex marriage. But that isn't all …
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Following the first round of presidential elections, in which no candidate received a majority of the votes, Colombia's top two candidates will compete in a runoff election on June 19, …
President Lopez Obrador uses the process intended to remove an unpopular President from office to instead reinforce his supposed popularity. On April 10, 2022 Mexico held a Presidential recall …
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This past month, four journalists have been killed in Mexico. Last year, at least seven journalists were killed, marking an unprecedented number of deaths of journalists and reporters. Mexico has been …
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Although a democracy on paper, Mexico faces a substantial obstacle that drastically undermines the freeness and fairness of its elections. That obstacle is organized crime, particularly in the form of …
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Mexico’s Democracy, on the Path to Autocratization? Gonzalo Meza In 2018, the left-wing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), from the newly founded National Regeneration Movement, …
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Photograph by Manuel Velásquez/Getty Images Andrés Manuel López Obrador elected president in 2018 Mexican General Elections. He not only became president with a huge margin and %53 of the vote, …
For democracy to thrive, its major parts must be balanced, and its citizens must be educated. For democracy to thrive, it must be protected. Mexico faces a dilemma: an eroding democracy. …
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