Charisma, Old and New
From his daily “mañaneras” press conferences, AMLO not only decrees reality but reinforces the redeemer that he believes he incarnates, the man in whom millions of compatriots place their faith
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Two Years after Fall of Kabul, US Still Has Work to Do in Afghanistan
The United States cannot turn its back on the moral responsibility that it retains to the Afghans who worked for and with the United States during the first two decades of this century
Read moreMexico’s Country Risk Indicator up 45.9 Percent from 2017
Mexico fell to 11th place in 2023 from its fifth place ranking in 2017, placing Mexico’s economy in the bottom half of the 17 Latin American economies considered by Emerging Markets Bond Index compiled by JP Morgan Chase
Read moreSupreme Court Rules Plan B Electoral Reform Invalid
While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pivoted from his defunct constitutional electoral reform to change some of Mexico’s basic electoral laws, purported violations of the legislative process during Plan B’s passage has put the reform’s constitutionality in question at the Supreme Court
Read moreAMLO Accuses Supreme Court of Trying to Replace Congress
Mexico’s Legal Counsel of the Federal Executive, which reports directly to the president, warned that, in case of invalidating it, the Highest Court would be substituting Congress
Read moreThat Last Afternoon with Octavio Paz
Like a lion caged in his own body and tethered to his wheelchair, covered by a Mexican blanket, Paz inquired with anguish as to the fate of his beloved nation
Read moreMinimal Legislative Output Earns Deputies Millions of Pesos
A total of 50 of the congress’ 500-member body have reportedly failed to present more than one single initiative across the past year and a half – all while receiving 2.7 million pesos in pay and other benefits during the very same period
Read moreElectoral Experts Warn Plan B Will Make Voting a ‘Nightmare’
The panel also determined that while Plan B would theoretically represent a savings of 3.5 billion pesos, it does not detail how these savings would be accomplished nor take into account the costs of transforming the country’s current electoral bodies
Read moreThe View from the North: It’s Now or Never on the Debt Ceiling
According to news reports, there are 24 Republican senators who want to do something about the congressional impasse
Read morePacific Alliance Suspended over Peruvian President’s Travel Ban
By KELIN DILLON On the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 22, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) confirmed that the 17th Pacific Alliance Summit – which was set to be held in Mexico from Wednesday, Nov. 23, to Friday, Nov. 25 – will now be suspended indefinitely as summit participant and Peruvian President Pedro Castillo remains barred from leaving Peru
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