By RICARDO CASTILLO It came as no surprise to on Thursday, May 9, when Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) declared the bidding for the construction of the new Dos Bocas refinery on the Gulf of Mexico shoreline in the state of Tabasco a deserted tender. Instead, AMLO said in his daily press conference at the National Palace, that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO What’s new in Mexican news? Most definitely not President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “new” program that he touted over the weekend of April 27 and 28 as the “Development Curtain” to be built along the Isthmus of Tehuantepec – the narrowest land space in southeastern Mexico, between the Pacific and the Atlantic. This same project has
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Like whirlwind, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took the nation by storm in December, outlining the shape of things to come in Mexico during 2019. AMLO was anything but contemplative during his first month in office. To begin with, he held 20 hour-long press conferences to explain either what he had done the the day before or what he
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