Morena's school for candidates: 116,000 enrolled, 7 in 100 in class and 1,657 foreigners at Mexico's ruling-party academy

216,288 records116,752 people7 in 100 with a session18,588 bids for officeMedian age 42.647.7% in six states1,657 foreigners724 foreigners in January 202642 tied to U.S. jurisdictions53 Mexican consulates in the U.S.6 consulates in the TPPF and AFPI report28 charged in California606 study circles30.7% from the public sector3,604.9 million pesos for Morena in 2027216,288 records116,752 people7 in 100 with a session18,588 bids for officeMedian age 42.647.7% in six states1,657 foreigners724 foreigners in January 202642 tied to U.S. jurisdictions53 Mexican consulates in the U.S.6 consulates in the TPPF and AFPI report28 charged in California606 study circles30.7% from the public sector3,604.9 million pesos for Morena in 2027

Before we go on: the hard words, in plain language

INFP: The National Institute of Political Training. It is Morena's cadre school: it gives the courses the party requires of anyone who wants to be a candidate.
CURP: Mexico's unique personal ID code. It contains date of birth, sex and state of birth. Here it was used only to count people without double counting.
Coordinator: The title Morena gives its future candidate before the formal campaign. For 2027 there are state, district and municipal coordinators.
Study circle: A group of party members who meet weekly, biweekly or monthly to study party materials.
FARA: A 1938 U.S. law. If you work in the United States for a foreign government or a foreign party and do politics, you must register and disclose who you work for.
52 U.S.C. § 30121: The U.S. law that bars foreign nationals, including foreign political parties, from putting money or anything of value into U.S. elections.
Voting from abroad: Mexicans living outside Mexico can vote in some Mexican elections by mail, online or at polling modules. In 2027 they vote for 10 governorships.

In plain words

A school that works like a toll booth

If you want to be Morena's candidate in 2027, you first have to go through its school. The party's own call says so.

The National Institute of Political Training, the INFP, was born on August 19, 2018, the same day Morena's Extraordinary National Congress created it. It has been chaired ever since by Rafael Barajas Durán, the cartoonist known as "El Fisgón." On October 8, 2026, he led the training of the 17 state coordinators Morena picked for the 2027 governorships.

The National Executive Committee's call for municipal coordinators, approved on October 6, 2026, requires in its Third Base, item 12, that applicants have completed "at least one ethical and political training activity organized by the INFP." The course is the toll booth. No certificate, no registration.

What does the school cost? Morena answered a transparency request saying the INFP "has no budget of its own" and depends on the party's Finance Secretariat. Until 2022 the party bylaws assigned it half of the public funding. The December 2022 reform removed that rule. For 2027, Mexico's electoral authority, the INE, assigned Morena 3,604.9 million pesos in public funding.

A source who asked for anonymity provided three INFP databases: Students, Attendance and Enrollments. Together they hold 216,288 records from March 2023 to January 2026. This investigation publishes only aggregates. No name, CURP, email or phone number leaves here.

How we handled the data

We used the CURP for three things only: counting distinct persons, computing registered age and sex, and matching the three files. We publish nothing that could identify anyone.

Party members are not the story. The machine is: how a ruling party uses its school to filter who gets to run.

How many

216,000 records, 116,000 people, 12,000 in class

A record is not a person. An enrolled person is not a trained person. That is the difference the INFP does not count.

The three files add up to 216,288 rows. Removing CURP duplicates leaves 116,752 distinct persons, plus 1,657 foreign enrollments that have no CURP. Some people appear in all three files: 1,553.

In 2023 the INFP stated in a transparency response that it had trained 134,855 people. In the records, the people with activity in 2023 number 89,432. The official figure is the size of the enrollment rolls, not the size of those who attended.

From enrollment to classFunnel · INFP records

Source: INFP records provided by an anonymous source, cutoff January 2026. "Sessions" per the TOTAL SESIONES ASISTIDAS and NÚMERO DE SESIONES ASISTIDAS fields of the attendance file. Some online courses may log progress on another platform; the records do not show it.

153,589 attendance records show zero sessions. Only 2,262 completed every session of their course.

Now what the school does not publish: where its students live, whom it trains and which foreigners it enrolls.

On the other side of the lock: the school's map state by state, the age of its students, the 18,588 preparing to run for mayor, legislator and senator, the public officials in the classroom, the 1,657 foreigners, the live map of Morena's consular network, the California voter-roll case and the complaint before U.S. authorities.

Keep reading

Morena's school, from the inside

The INFP map by state, crossed with the 17 governorships at stake in 2027.
The age pyramid and the gender gap by office sought.
18,588 bids for office: mayors, state legislatures, the federal Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, state by state.
The calendar: the school opens when there is an election, and what that predicts for 2027.
Officials in the classroom: the Welfare Ministry, its field operators and elected officials.
What they teach: "Mexican humanism," Lenin and cognitive warfare.
1,657 foreigners, 42 tied to U.S. jurisdictions, and the January 2026 wave.
Who really interferes in Mexico: Washington or the São Paulo Forum network.
The live map of the network: 53 consulates, Morena committees, meetings with consuls in six cities and the Sacramento consulate video.
California's voter roll: the Justice Department lawsuit, the 28 charged, Bonta's response and the documents.
The road to 2027 and the complaint to the DOJ, the State Department and the FEC, to download.
Full audio of the investigation.

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Sources

Documents and data

Nivel A Documented factNivel B Attributed statement or allegationNivel C Analysis

Records. Morena National Institute of Political Training: Students (19,040), Attendance (165,595) and Enrollments (31,653). Provided by an anonymous source. March 2023 to January 2026. Own processing with a uniform CURP de-duplication protocol; only aggregates are published.

Morena and the INFP. INFP Regulation, INE portal. Morena National Executive Committee call for municipal coordinators, Oct 6, 2026, Third Base, item 12. Morena, state coordinator results, Sept 29, 2026. INFP course catalog, infp-cursosformacionpolitica.thinkific.com. Morena transparency response on the INFP, Sept 2025. Federal Electoral Court, SUP-JDC-2151/2025 and bulletin 110/2026.

INE. 2027 public funding (Aug 2026). Women's political leadership 2026 (Jan 26, 2026). Vote from abroad 2027 (March 26, 2026). Party membership roll review (Aug 2026).

Interference. Diario Oficial, June 2, 2026, Art. 41, Base VI, subsection d. Presidential press conferences, Sept 2 and Oct 8, 2026. State Department statements on visas. Puebla Group, 9th meeting, Puebla, Sept 29, 2023. São Paulo Forum post, June 3, 2024. Proceso, May 3, 2025 (agreement with the Communist Party of Cuba).

United States. morenaenelexterior.org portal. Mexican Foreign Ministry statement, May 21, 2026. 22 U.S.C. § 611 et seq.; 18 U.S.C. § 951; 52 U.S.C. § 30121; 11 C.F.R. § 110.20; Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Art. 55. Public FARA database, efile.fara.gov.

The consular network. Texas Public Policy Foundation and America First Policy Institute, "Mexico's Regime in the United States" (Oct 14-15, 2026), as reported by PolíticoMX (Oct 14, 2026), Los Ángeles Press (Oct 16, 2026) and texaspolicy.com (Oct 15, 2026). Mexico's consular network in the U.S. La Jornada and AP (May 8, 2026, review of the 53 consulates). Peter Schweizer (Jan 2026). Column by Salvador García Soto (May 2026). El Financiero (June 14, 2024, consular vote).

California. United States v. State of California, case 2:26-cv-12025, C.D. Cal., Oct 15, 2026 (justice.gov/opa/media/1466286/dl). USAO-CDCA, release 26-196. EAC, EAVS 2022. CalMatters (Oct 20, 2026, Bonta's response). OPB (Oct 20, 2026, 28 charged). Earlier investigation: california.simonlevy.mx.

São Paulo Forum. 2018 Havana Declaration. Tegucigalpa 2024. Brasília 2023 delegations published by the Workers' Party. Member party listing.

Press. La Jornada (Oct 9, 2026; Sept 26, 2026). Proceso (Oct 8, 2026). Expansión (Aug 13, 2019). 24 Horas (Jan 8, 2025). El Universal (profile of Morena's Secretary of Mexicans Abroad).

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