Tag: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 1: Judicial Overhaul and Democratic Backsliding in Mexico
—Tania Groppi, University of Siena (Italy)* [Editors’ Note: This is Part 1 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico: Introduction
—Ana Micaela Alterio, ITAM (Mexico City) [Editors’ Note: This is the introduction to a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The symposium pieces are cross-posted here (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish). We are grateful to Ana Micaela Alterio for her work in organizing the symposium.]
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Mexico’s Constitutional Democracy in Crisis: The Judicial Overhaul is Only the Beginning
—Mariana Velasco-Rivera, Maynooth University, Jaime Olaiz, Universidad Panamericana, and Irene Parra Prieto, ITAM [Editor’s Note: Cross-posted from the IACL-AIDC blog.] The final act of Mexican President López Obrador will be in collaboration with the president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and the newly elected Congress, after the landslide victory of MORENA’s coalition last June.
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Playing the Long Game: Behind Mexico’s Presidential Recall Election
—Mariana Velasco-Rivera, National University of Ireland Maynooth, School of Law and Criminology; Co-Editor, IACL Blog. Twitter: @marisconsin. [Editor’s Note: This is one of our biweekly ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2022 columnists, see here.] In my last column I tried to bring attention to the way in which Mexico’s ruling party (MORENA) hijacked the presidential…
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Mexico’s Upcoming Presidential Recall Election has been Hijacked by the President’s Party
—Mariana Velasco-Rivera, National University of Ireland Maynooth, School of Law and Criminology; Co-Editor, IACL Blog. Twitter: @marisconsin. [Editor’s Note: This is one of our regular ICONnect columns.] In recent years, a series of constitutional amendments have introduced mechanisms of direct democracy in Mexico—in particular, referendums (2012) and Presidential recall elections (2019).
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López Obrador’s Fourth Transformation of Mexico: Four Areas of Scholarly Inquiry
[Editor’s note: This is one of our biweekly I-CONnect columns. Columns, while scholarly in accordance with the tone of the blog and about the same length as a normal blog post, are a bit more “op-ed” in nature than standard posts.