By RICARDO CASTILLO The birthing pangs of Mexico’s new National Guard (GN) are being heard loud and clear across the country. But they do not come from within the newly created police deployed on the streets as of Sunday, June 30. The are from the nation’s Federal Police agents, who fear the changes that the GN represent. With the National
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The revolt of Mexico’s Federal Police against their new bosses, the National Guard (GN) commanders, was the culmination of tensions that had been in the making for a while now. (See my previous article on the issue “Trump’s Adamancy Sparks Frictions within National Guard.”) On Wednesday, July 3, some 300 members of a total of 10,000 that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO As a result of the political bullying imposed on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) by his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, the plans to integrate the country’s new police force, the National Guard (GN), have been thrown out of kilter. Originally, had The Donald not been hit by the whim to slap tariffs of AMLO’s administration, if
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Both houses of the Mexican Congress folded on Tuesday, April 30, ending the first part of formal sessions for this year of 2019. There was one surprise as the Senate sent back to the Chamber of Deputies President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) much-touted new law abrogating former President Enrique Peña Nieto’s ill-fated Education Reform. The bill didn’t
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO For a prelude to a presidency, surely that of Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has got too many dissonant chords. First it was his decision to control oil crude production that caused a market shakeup and further peso devaluation. Then came the cancelation of the ongoing construction of the new airport that sent markets skidding and pumped the
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