On the principle that the most important thing about the mayor’s office is that as many candidates as possible should have the opportunity to hold it, mayors in Mexico (with the exception of the Mayor of Mexico City, who has a six-year term) are elected for one brief, three-year term...
The former Mexico City mayor and frontrunner in the June 2 presidential election has had to unquestioningly adopt the programs of the popular Lopez Obrador as candidate of the Morena party he created and dominates. Parts of her background, however, suggest a different vision...
and embroidered linen kimonos dyed with indigo and cochineal from local label Korimi Kids. None of these designers had a brick-and-mortar shop. After all, in a city obsessed with collaboration, and replete with spectacular spaces ideal for short-term group exhibitions, what would be the point...
The Templo MayorThe Great Pyramid, Templo Mayor, was the main temple in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City). Hérnan Cortés destroyed most of the pyramid during his conquest in 1521, but some pieces of the ancient temple have been unearthed and restored to their former splend...
That will probably leave his successor with her hands tied for much of her six-year term. Even if opposition candidate Xochitl Galvez wins, a mountain of financial commitments will weigh on her. The candidate of Lopez Obrador’s party, former Mexico City mayor Clau...
If she wins the June 2 election, the former Mexico City mayor will be the nation's first female president and will remain in office until 2030. Sheinbaum, a close ally of Lopez Obrador, holds a comfortable lead of more than 20 percentage points over her closest challenger...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday named Omar Garcia Harfuch to be her security minister in a bid to repeat the successes in fighting crime she achieved as mayor of Mexico City. Garcia Harfuch, who served as Sheinbaum's security chief when she...
Top 5 Things to See and Do in Mexico City 1. Walk through the Zócalo Encompassing the Templo Mayor, Palacio Nacional, and Plaza de la Constitución, the Zócalo is the heart of Mexico City’s Historic Center. Originally the site of an Aztec Temple, the Templo Mayor was destroyed to make...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Claudia Sheinbaum, the woman who won Mexico’s June 2 presidential vote, has finally been formally declared Mexico’s President-elect, the first woman to hold the office in Mexico. At a ceremony Thursday, the former Mexico City mayor was handed the legal ruling declar...
Seven candidates in mid-term elections last June were murdered and 70 were attacked. The latest murder is among the most shocking: on January 2nd Gisela Mota, mayor of Temixco, about 85km (53 miles) south of Mexico City, was killed in her home by several assassins just one day after ...