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AMLO Gets a Taste of His Own Chocolate Soup

By RICARDO CASTILLO     First, let me explain some Mexican meanings for the word “chocolate.” Chocolate is Mexico’s sweetest gift to humanity. That, however, does not mean that Mexicans use the word chocolate just to refer to confectionaries. In Mexican slang, chocolate can mean the contrary of sweet – bitterness or outright anger. Take, for instance, the phrase used in the title of

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Standoff at San Lázaro Ends, SAT Workers Confront AMLO

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF     After nearly 12 hours of blocking access to Mexico’s San Lázaro Legislative Palace, which houses the nation’s lower House of Deputies, a group of several hundred campesinos (rural workers) protesting the new government’s slashing of funding for the Rural Development Secretariat finally allowed federal deputies to leave the premises at about 8 p.m. on

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