AMLO Downplays Protest against New Electoral Law
López Obrador labeled those who joined the demonstration as “pure electoral racoons” who were following the orders of “white collar criminals”
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AMLO’s Electoral March to Be Met with Peaceful Protest for the INE
By KELIN DILLON As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to promote his Nov. 27 Mexico City march in favor of the his controversial electoral reform, opponents of AMLO’s proposed changes to Mexico’s autonomous electoral organization the National Electoral Institute (INE) – who already showed up in an estimated 500,000-plus strong turnout at the Nov. 13 Mexico City
Read moreAMLO Wants his own Protest March, but What Will he March against?
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a blatant act of me-tooism, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Wednesday, Nov. 16, that — after having first denied the massive 500,000-plus turnout of the nationwide March for Democracy on Sunday, Nov. 13, in defense of the country’s National Electoral Institute (INE), which he has been champing at the bits to abolish
Read moreCTNE Pressures AMLO to Renegotiate Teachers’ Demands
By KELIN DILLON On Saturday, Aug. 28, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) SUV was held at a standstill by protesting members of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CTNE) teachers’ union for the second day in a row while on tour in Chiapas, with the group demanding for him to listen to their demands and reopen negotiations. López
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