By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) drew criticism for laughing at a political cartoon depicting journalist Joaquín López-Dóriga during his daily press conference on the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 22. AMLO’s mockery of López-Dóriga, one of Mexico’s most renown journalists, came after the president announced he would be postponing his tour of Mexico City’s neighborhoods to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Which Border Wall Did Trump Mean? Oh, my God! Not again!!! U.S. President Donald Trump reignited his 2016 campaign war cry while stumping in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Tuesday, Jan. 28, saying that he would make Mexico pay for the border wall. After describing costs and the 400-mile-stretch already built of his “beautiful” wall, Trump capped his
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By RICARDO CASTILLO In mid-July, former Mexican Treasury Secretary Carlos Urzúa, upon presenting his resignation to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), launched a frontal attack against AMLO’s Chief of Staff Alfonso Romo Garza in an interview. “It’s most difficult to understand the type of relationship, ideologically speaking, Romo has with the president,” Urzúa said. “He’s an extreme right-winger.” Urzúa
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It was a political rock rattle and roll in the Mexican government Tuesday, July 9, when, over the course of just one hour one Treasury Secretary resigned and a new one was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). To offer a proper sequence of events, allow me to start from the beginning of the series
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By RICARDO CASTILLO There’s always been political slang wherever there are politics, which is in every territory that has an organized government administration. In this sense, Mexico is no different. But for this writer, there are two words currently in Mexican political vogue that were not always there before. In fact, these words that came into fashion in the few
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By RICARDO CASTILLO How the press views the Mexican presidency has definitely changed in more than few ways since Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was sworn into office last December. To begin with, AMLO established from the very beginning of his term his Monday-through-Friday press conferences, which start at 7 a.m. and end when they’re over, ranging in length from
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Play ball, heckling politics and eat “cochinita” tacos!!! Over 20,000 Mexico City baseball fans on Saturday, March 23, made the trek to the revamped stadium located at Magdalena Mixchuca Sports City in eastern Mexico City. The objective of getting there was threefold, the most important incentive being to watch President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) make the
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The Power of Color By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS There is nothing that influences us in our daily lives quite as much as color. One of the most powerful means of communications and expression, color can influence the way we think, feel and perceive the world we live in. Color is a key factor in corporate branding and marketing, and nearly 90
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