Mexico: Expanding Democracy and Defending Sovereignty

EPISODE: Mexico: Expanding Democracy and
Defending Sovereignty


GUEST:  José Luis Granados Ceja, journalist
with Venezuelanalysis and The Mexico Solidarity Project


BACKGROUND:  


The international press is again bludgeoning Mexican president
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, this time accusing him of attacking
the country’s democratic institutions. It’s a baseless charge
intended to undermine a government that refuses total obedience
to US hegemony.


On February 23, an electoral reform bill received its final
approval in the Mexican Senate en route to being signed into law


The National Electoral Institute (INE) is widely recognized to be
riddled with excess expenditure and a top-heavy bureaucracy. The
new law simply mandates similar cost-saving measures to those
that the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
has applied to other governmental departments. It eliminates
duplicate functions at the local and district level, and fuses
certain higher-level job descriptions. It also reins in
eye-catching top salaries.


The law also facilitates voting rights for the disabled, those
held in pretrial detention, and the millions of migrants living
abroad. It provides tougher sanctions for the endemic practice of
vote-buying and enshrines in law the inclusion of minorities and
members of vulnerable groups on candidate lists


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No, AMLO Is Not Undermining Mexican Democracy


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