by Keilly Irlas Flores | Nov 20, 2023 | Northeastern University
Journalists are being killed in Mexico and they’re taking the country’s democracy with them. The increasing assassination of journalists in Mexico is a sign of liberal democracy backsliding in the country. They are the result of weakened vertical accountability...
by Tomás Cruz Villalvazo | May 1, 2023 | University of Utah
Last February, Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) received massive criticism for recently approved electoral reforms that seek to undermine Mexico’s most renowned independent electoral commission the National Electoral Institute (INE), formerly known...
by Alia Arnold | Dec 6, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
Another populist attempts to strengthen their power through eliminating electoral institutions in Mexico. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has used his power in the presidency to consolidate power that will inevitably erode democracy. Andrés Manuel López...
by Angie Veliz | Jun 10, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
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 they did- they also took it one step further by updating their...
by Maggie Pierce | Jun 3, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
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, 2022. Colombia is caught up in their presidential election since the...
