By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been having a bad week. As Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola astutely pointed out in his Wednesday, May 26, column in El Universal daily newspaper, so far this week, AMLO’s so-called Fourth Transformation (4T) national redux has been leveled by a triple political whammy as a perfect storm
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF José Ramiro López Obrador, the brother of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced Sunday, Nov. 1, that he had resigned from his appointed post as undersecretary of border affairs, migrants and human rights for his native state of Tabasco in order to run for office in next year’s midterm elections. The announcement was
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS And so it begins… After opening a Pandora box of a video tape of questionable origin, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has now finds himself embroiled in a mounting scandal of allegedly illegal funds that have already cast an incriminating shadow on his left-leaning National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party and even his brother. It all
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By RICARDO CASTILLO U.S. expat-cum-Mexican political activist John Mill Ackerman Rose (to use the Mexican style of writing long names) now is engaged on several fronts that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) opponents are using as potential attacks on his presidency. The one rocking the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) insider politics boat the most is Ackerman calling on the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Last week, Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola ran on the website Latinus.us an article enumerating the nine real estate properties of Public Function Secretary Irma Eréndira Sandoval and her husband, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) law professor and National Electoral Institute (INE) candidate for councilor appraiser John Mill Ackerman. The exposé, to call it by
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Three Executives Resign on AMLO After three women government executives resigned their posts on Friday, June 19, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) retorted: “All those who are not in agreement with the Fourth Transformation should consider resigning too.” AMLO also questioned the existence of some organizations that “sprouted like mushrooms” in past administrations, and now
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Questions galore arose in Mexico regarding the arrest on Tuesday, Dec. 10, of the country’s former public security secretary from 2006 to 2012, Genaro García Luna, who served under President Felipe Calderón. Garcia Luna also was the Federal Investigations Agency (AFI) chief from 2001 to 2005, under President Vicente Fox. García Luna was arrested in Grapevine, Texas,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made it clear that Eduardo Medina Mora “freely made his own decision” to resign…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There can be no doubt that with the over 200 press conferences he’s held since being sworn in 10 months ago on Dec. 1, 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has shaken up the old and very rusty and corrupt system of journalism information availability in Mexico. The number of journalistic casualties is high. The
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By RICARDO CASTILLO How well are relations between Mexico and the United States doing? Or to be blunt about it, how are relations between U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)? According to a clique of prophets of doom that gather every Wednesday night in a Mexican commentary program called “Tercer Grado” (“Third Degree”) on
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