His disputed 1988 presidential bid challenged the PRI’s decades-long grip on power and helped open Mexico’s political system ...

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano, a towering figure of the Mexican left whose challenge to a once long-ruling party helped ...

To get a sense of the danger hovering over Mexican democracy, consider these numbers: In the 681 years between the founding of the Aztec empire in 1325 and the present day, Mexico has lived for 196 ...

Former Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has reappeared in a surprise public message after months out of the spotlight, declaring that he intends to remain fully retired from political ...

BUENOS AIRES — Populist governments love to control the judiciary. We’ve seen it in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bid to curtail judicial powers — probably to wriggle out of pending ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum owes a strange debt of gratitude to President Trump: His attacks on Mexico have rallied the country behind her, diverting attention from her moves to undermine ...

Former President of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo spoke to the Wake Forest community on Oct. 16 about his experience transforming ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexicans will vote in the country’s first judicial elections Sunday. The fiercely debated question is whether electing judges will deepen democratic decay or purge courts of rampant ...

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico’s Senate gave final approval Tuesday to a labor law overhaul that will allow outsourcing and part-time employment, but doesn’t include clauses intended to democratize ...

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