FRIDAY, MAY 18 PROGRAM # 8332 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. With the strategy of the useful vote, the Mexican government seeks to boost Ricardo Anaya, candidate for the PAN party, to prevent the center-left candidate López Obrador from getting the presidency. 43 days before the elections, López Obrador leads all the electoral polls. According […]

FRIDAY, MAY 11 PROGRAM # 8327 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Relatives of the disappeared ask candidates for the presidency of Mexico to cancel the so-called war against drug trafficking, repeal the Law of Internal Security and allow the action of international organizations to fight corruption and impunity. They rejected the proposal of amnesty of […]

FRIDAY, MAY 4 PROGRAM # 8322 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Opinion polls predict the imminent triumph of López Obrador for the presidency of Mexico. With 25 points ahead of their opponents, and with 45 points in intention to vote, it is also expected that their coalition would win a number of city races, governorships […]

FRIDAY, APRIL 27 PROGRAM # 8317 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts the program Voz Pública from Mexico City. The civic journalist brings news and analysis on Mexican developments. Photo: Oswaldo Vazquez/Facebook For more information about Linea Abierta click here To visit Linea Abierta audio archives go to archivosderb.org

FRIDAY, APRIL 20 PROGRAM # 8312 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. More than 30 migrant organizations based in the US seek to publicly dialogue with candidates for the presidency of Mexico. The Mexican nationals plan to ask the presidential hopefuls to improve the consular services for Mexico’s emigres and to create in the country a […]

FRIDAY, APRIL 13 PROGRAM # 8307 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Despite having submitted more than 800 thousand allegedly false signatures to run for president, the Electoral Tribunal decided to include Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, aka “el Bronco”, in the race for the Mexican presidency. According to reports in Mexican newspapers, former President Carlos Salinas and […]

FRIDAY, APRIL 6 PROGRAM # 8302 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. The caravan of migrants that travels through Mexican territory to reach the US border has verbally confronted presidents Trump and Peña Nieto, accusing them of not addressing the deep causes for the continuous exodus of Central Americans who flee their countries every year due […]

FRIDAY, MARCH 30 PROGRAM # 8297 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. Mexican presidential campaigns are heating up, with a progressive candidate leading the polls by wide margin. Meantime, Mexicans living abroad rush to beat the deadline to register to vote, and Mexico’s consulates are preparing to open until midnight on Saturday, amid complaints that Mexican […]

FRIDAY, MARCH 23 PROGRAM # 8292 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. In the race for the presidential elections of 2018, the center-left candidate López Obrador offers to end corruption and unlawful enrichment, to reactivate the domestic economy and strengthen economic aid programs for the population. The candidates of the ruling party, PRI, and the conservative […]

FRIDAY, MARCH 16 PROGRAM # 8287 12:00 PM PT Mexico Edition. “If the government commits fraud in the elections, it will unleash the tiger and I will not tie it back,” warned the presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador when he met with the bankers of Mexico, pointing to a past situation in which he […]