Declaring that “citizens must have the final word,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has officially asked the Senate to vote on whether to call a national referendum that would decide if five former presidents face criminal prosecution for alleged acts of corruption.

Last Sunday, facing Guadalajara’s central Plaza de Armas, political activists set up tables to collect signatures to request that a survey be carried out to decide whether to prosecute former Mexican presidents for alleged acts of corruption.

Mexico is set to receive 32 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, the government-backed Russian Direct Investments Fund (RDIF) announced this week in a press release.

Christopher Landau, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, is among a list of 20 names released by U.S. President Donald Trump as potential Supreme Court candidates.

Don’t expect to hear any fireworks on the evening of September 15, as most “Grito” ceremonies across Mexico have been cancelled, in addition to Independence Day (September 16) parades.

Between April and July of this year, Mexico registered 123,000 more deaths than in 2019. Only one-third of the 2020 deaths have been confirmed as Covid-19 related.