Mexico's Pena Nieto, seeking wide reforms, wants to limit power of governors
6 days ago
And since roughly 80 percent of state budgets are funded by the central government, ramping up resources to the states helped PRI governors finance programs to please their constituents.
Mexico, to attract U.S. retirees, may ease limits on landownership
14 days ago
Another PRI lawmaker, Gloria Elizabeth Nunez, told McClatchy that "many foreigners have been defrauded by straw men purchasers" who later claimed the property for themselves.
Mexico's president gathers power, pushes reform
66 days ago
He persuaded the PRI to rewrite its rules this month, incorporating the president into the party's top leadership after years of nominal separation between the party and the government.
Mexico moves to open up telecom industry long dominated by monopolies
73 days ago
In some ways, the latest move marked the PRI's continuing effort to raze some of the structures that it had erected to rule Mexico during its 71-year unbroken reign that ended in 2000.
If Mexico wants to launch anti-corruption crusade, there are plenty of officials...
81 days ago
They note that Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, known by its Spanish initials as the PRI, has shown a remarkably high tolerance for corruption.
Mexico's ruling party says yes to energy reform
81 days ago
Nearly 5,000 members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party voted unanimously at their national convention Sunday to remove language that for years had forbidden private money in Petroleos...
Peña Nieto moves to end Pemex's oil monopoly
83 days ago
"The PRI will align itself with its natural leader," said Enrique Krauze, a historian and author of Mexico: A Biography of Power.
Mexico plays hardball in jailing of union boss
85 days ago
The PRI, which ruled Mexico from 1929 to 2000, spent 12 years out of power before returning to the presidency with Pena Nieto's 2012 election victory.
Arrest of Mexico teacher union boss Elba Esther Gordillo seen as a warning to...
85 days ago
Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam appeared on national television Tuesday night to accuse Gordillo and three top aides of misusing more than $200 million in union funds, including for shopping...
Mexico's arrested union leader started humble
86 days ago
Her friendship with Fox infuriated some PRI officials, who managed to prevent her from becoming leader of the party in 2005.