By RICARDO CASTILLO Inside the Closed Dinner Does the name Patricia Armendáriz ring a bell? Most likely not. But, she was the only business woman invited by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to join him at last week’s White House meet with U.S. President Donald Trump. Armendáriz, who runs a highly successful savings, loans and investments organization called
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Growing Legs
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Police Brutality Accusations After a raucous weekend of protests and arbitrary arrests, the Jalisco State Human Rights Commission (CEDHJ) is demanding that all police commanders who participated in the detentions be removed from their posts. At the top of the list is the state attorney general, Gerardo Octavio Solís, who allegedly ordered the arrests of the protesters,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … There’s fear in the air with the advent of the 51st anniversary march of what is known as the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The investigation into the disappearance and execution of 43 rural Mexican normal school students on the night of Sept. 26, 2014, is getting more tangled up as the days go by, nearly five years after the fact. Over the past week, judges have been releasing the confessed culprits, not because they are innocent, but because their cases were
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Corruption within the Ayotzinapa Investigation
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The top criticism of outgoing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and his governance team has been repeated time and time again. “They just don’t understand that they don’t understand,” was the general consensus of top columnists and political observers across Mexico as the president sent his last State of the Nation Address to the joint session of Congress (the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Last week, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto went on an unprecedented spree of interviews with three major television stations (Televisa, Imagen and TVAzteca). He was also interviewed by the leftist daily La Jornada and other newspapers. But should the president be doing this nowadays? There are a number of reasons he is launching this media blitz. First off,
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