Institutional Revolutionary Party News

With the economy expected to contract, momentum for a downgrade may be unstoppable.

Mayor Martin Chavez declared a new holiday in Albuquerque. Oct. 30 is Carlos Fuentes Day.

Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy magazine, recently wrote that what is said about Brazil today - that the country's potential has finally been unlocked - was also said about Mexico in the 1990s, a nation that now finds itself in the economic doldrums.

Mexico's debacle - a teaching moment Source: Independent Institute Author: Alvaro Vargas Llosa Posted on 10.28.09 by Thomas L. Knapp "Moises Naim, the editor of Foreign Policy magazine, recently wrote that what is said about Brazil today a ' that the countrya TMs potential has finally been unlocked a ' was said of Mexico in the 1990s, a nation that ...

Michael Valpy From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009 12:41AM EDT A senior Mexican senator and former foreign affairs minister yesterday called Canada's visa controls on Mexico a humiliation and questioned whether Canadian-Mexican relations will improve as long as Stephen Harper is Prime Minister.

Former Chihuahua state attorney general Miguel Etzel Maldonado, 66, died after two men shot him in front of his home in Chihuahua City, authorities in Mexico said.

Continuing on the path of a centennial reconquest of power, Mexico's former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party easily won October 18 municipal elections in the northern border state of Coahuila.

During the first week of October, the increasingly unpopular government of Felipe Calderon stepped up its ongoing war of words against the Mexican Electricity Workers Union , one of the nation's oldest labor organizations founded at the apogee of the landmark Mexican Revolution in 1914 when workers repeatedly shut down the Canadian-owned Mexican ...

Forensics experts began digging for secret graves in an army base in southwest Mexico this week to find proof of government atrocities during the country's 1970s 'dirty war.' Using high-tech scanners, picks and shovels, they searched for bodies of community leaders who were abducted by soldiers, taken to the isolated base at the Pacific town of ...

WHEN Felipe Caldern declared in his annual report to Congress last month that Mexico needed to pursue "fundamental" change, the country's political establishment yawned.

Economic reform arrived at Mexico's electrical utility on Saturday night wearing black body armor, crash helmets and ski masks.

When the U.S. economy sneezed last year, Mexico didn't just catch a cold. It got the economic equivalent of swine flu and now faces its worst decline in 77 years.

The newly elected mayor of this city pledges his administration will upgrade schools, create an atmosphere for investment in the city and forge strong bonds with San Luis, Ariz.

Vicente Fox served as the President of Mexico from 2000-2006. He was the first President of Mexico in 71 years that was not associated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Practically since the day he was born, in 1968, Emilio Azcarraga Jean has owned one of the most famous names in Mexico.

The Mexican government's supertanker-like oil monopoly, Pemex, has been listing badly for years, and President Felipe Calderon has just placed a less-experienced new captain at the helm.

Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy and two young men for allegedly killing a state congressional candidate and his family.

Mexico, Sep 6 Mexican official sources confirmed Sunday the murder of local deputy from the Institutional Revolutionary Party Jose Francisco Fuentes along with his family.

Mexico, Aug 31 A year after non-wanted pregnancy interruption was legalized in the Mexican capital, social organizations stated that censorship of the abortion in some entities of the country puts the achievement in that matter at risk.

Reporting from Mexico City - Mexican President Felipe Calderon has lost his first scrape with the new Congress, and it hasn't even been sworn in yet.