AMLO Refuses to Turn over Pacific Alliance Presidency
The Pacific Alliance, composed of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, met in December in Lima, Peru, after AMLO canceled the November summit
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The Summit of the Americas and an Indecisive AMLO
OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO Just a week before it is set to start, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has yet to decide whether he will attend the June 6 Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California. Over this weekend, AMLO had several opportunities to make a statement as to whether he will attend, but instead kept repeating
Read moreMexico Donates 15,000 Covid-19 Vaccines to Paraguay
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexican government on Wednesday, Oct. 6, announced that it had donated 150,000 doses of covid-19 vaccines to Paraguay, as an act of solidarity under framework of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac). The vaccines, which were received in Asuncion by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations of Paraguay Marcelo Scappini,
Read moreUS Senators Admonish AMLO for Accepting Maduro
By KELIN DILLON In a letter addressed to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), U.S. Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott of Florida expressed their disappointment in López Obrador for accepting contested Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro into Mexico, rather than extraditing him to the United States where he faces criminal charges. Since March 2020, Maduro has had pending
Read moreCELAC Summit Turns into Shouting Match, Global Fiasco
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The sixth summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), hosted by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) at the National Palace on Saturday, Sept. 18, turned into a daylong shouting match between leftist and conservative leaders, overshadowing any hopes of real regional unity and shining a negative light on AMLO’s already-dubious international
Read moreAMLO Trashes OAS, Calls for New Latin American Unity
XINHUA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Saturday, July 14, called for “a new coexistence” of all the countries of the Americas to replace the Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS). Speaking before a summit of the 33-member Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) at Chapultepec Castle, the president went on to state the OAS model
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By RICARDO CASTILLO First Electoral Blood No sooner had Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) announced that the race for the midterm elections will officially start on Sept. 7, than the first missile was aimed directly at the second political force in the nation, the National Action Party (PAN). A vided allegedly showing Guillermo Gutiérrez Badillo. the private secretary of Querétaro
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