Tag Archives: conservative

Putin’s Incomprehensible Admirers

OPINION By ENRIQUE KRAUZE A nuclear power invades a small, sovereign nation. The world is witness to this unjust war, minute-by-minute, image-after-image: relentless bombardments against the civilian population, harrowing testimonies, mass exoduses, scenes of indescribable pain. That alone should arouse unanimous repudiation of the aggressor and unrestricted support for the victim. But that is not the case. A current of

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PAN: Sheinbaum Should Get to Work, Not Promote Herself

By MARK LORENZANA Mexico City Governor Claudia Sheinbaum should buckle down to work and stop the illegal early campaigning, demanded Kenia López Rabadán, deputy coordinator of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) caucus in the Mexican Senate. On Friday, July 1, Sheinbaum flew to the southeast Mexican state of Tabasco where her party mate, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador

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Opposition Bloc Demands Change in AMLO Security Plan

By MARK LORENZANA The public-security strategy of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is facing a possible review in the Mexican Senate, and the opposition bloc is demanding changes in the fight against organized crime, chief among them strengthening the state police and creating a professional civilian body in charge of public security. Damián Zepeda, a senator from the conservative National

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US Leftist Publication Blasts AMLO’s Political Ineptitude

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is not unaccustomed to bad press. Ever since he took office in December 2018 for what he has promised will be a normal six-year term (as specified in the Mexican Constitution, but which many of his detractors fear he will extend, as he has already extended the constitutional term of

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PAN Senator Rebukes AMLO for Accepting Russian Vaccines

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Senator Lilly Téllez, from the conservative National Action Party (PAN), issued a stern condemnation Tuesday, Jan. 26, to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) announcement the previous day that the country will be receiving 24 million unproven Sputnik V vaccines from Russia to be distributed nationwide. “Mexico does not require the ‘affection’ of

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The Horror! The Horror!

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Regardless of their political leaning — Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative — what Americans witnessed in Washington, D.C. yesterday, Wednesday, Jan. 6, represented a repugnant and shameful disgrace for every U.S. citizen. The savage violation of the U.S. Capitol building by a mob of rightwing ultraists who, egged on and enabled by the incendiary rhetoric of

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