Participatory budget: a civil society that puts pressure but does not engage.
Last week, Mexico City’s Electoral Institute (IEDF) held the second popular consultation on participatory budget for 2015. The...
The crisis in security and justice is structural, not circumstantial.
The resurgence of insecurity as a key issue within the national media, the beginning of the campaign towards...
Is it the end of the popular consultation?
The decision of the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice of rejecting the requests for a popular consultation on...
The temptation of financial recklessness in electoral times.
Several political theorists have written about the temptation of governments in electoral periods of spending more than they...
López Obrador’s “hazing” in his return to the electoral arena.
During Felipe Calderón’s tenure, the image of Andrés Manuel López Obrador was slowly rebuilt after his 2006 electoral...
Oil price: the budget’s most flammable element.
The drop in international oil prices has always been a bad forecast for Mexican public finances. Between 3...
The new Guerrero government: an old modus operandi in Mexico.
In an extraordinary session – more atypical than outstanding – taking place on the midday of October 26th,...
The Mexican left and the 2015 experiment.
On July 20th, during the National Convention of the Citizen Movement (MC), Marcelo Ebrard criticized his former party,...
Environmental protection: the energy reform’s inconvenient issue.
During the last couple of days, the process for approving the energy reform’s secondary legislation has experienced a...
The Federal Telecommunications Law and its scope on oligopolies
A few days before President Enrique Peña issued the secondary legislation of the telecommunications and radio broadcasting reform,...