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Protesters Kick Denise Dresser Out of Oct. 2 Protest March in Zócalo

By MARK LORENZANA A group of protesters who identified themselves as supporters of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) heckled, jeered and kicked out political analyst, activist and author Denise Dresser from a protest march on Sunday, Oct. 2, at Mexico City’s main square Zócalo. Dresser, who has been a vocal critic of López Obrador, attended the march commemorating

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AMLO Doubles Down after Twitter Forum Defends Loret de Mola

OPINION By KELIN DILLON Following a Twitter forum held over the weekend in defense of Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola’s work and freedom of the press rights, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) – the main target of Loret de Mola’s fact-based reports – has come against the journalist once more in a public forum, taking to his daily

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Panamanian President Asks AMLO to Show Respect

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) accused Panamanian Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes of acting line the “Spanish Inquisition” for denying approval of disgraced historian Pedro Salmerón as his ambassador to that country on Tuesday, Feb. 2, and saying that the Central American nation’s president was no doubt not even aware of her ruling,

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Panama Rejects Salmerón, AMLO Offers Him Another Cushy Job

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After the government of Panama formally rejected Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) appointment of disgraced historian Pedro Salmerón as ambassador to that country, AMLO announced Tuesday, Feb. 2, that he will instead propose Alternate Senator Jesusa Rodríguez for the post. “It turns out that I proposed Salmerón for ambassador in Panama and,

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Opinion 51 Supports Dresser amid AMLO’s Accusations

By KELIN DILLON After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) targeted political analyst Denise Dresser on Wednesday, Sept. 15, during his “who’s who in lies of the week” segment, journalists from the women-run organization Opinion 51 rallied in support and defense of the Reforma newspaper columnist. Dresser caught the ire of the executive after she criticized López Obrador and

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Denise Dresser Calls AMLO’s Referendum ‘a Sad Simulacrum’

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Four days before what it describes as Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) “farcical referendum,” the New York-based  Americas Quarterly on Thursday, July 28, published a scathing review on the absurdity of the Sunday, Aug. 1, public polling to decide whether to prosecute the country’s former presidents for their alleged misdeeds. In the article, which is

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