In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
AMLO, Mexico’s President who has led a progressive government since 2018, now has only one year (in fact slightly less) of a six-year term left. He leaves office on September 30 2024, and the elections are on June 2.
While Amlo is as active as ever in implementing his transformative programme, the succession and the general elections (with a new congress at stake as well) now dominate the political scene.
A first step has already been taken with the internal nomination process in the Morena party, which produced a clear majority for Claudia Sheinbaum (former head of government or metro mayor of Mexico City) as leader of the Fourth Transformation movement (meaning in effect she will be Morena’s presidential candidate).
DAVID RABY explains the background of the recent upheavals in Mexico
A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance