Speaking at the G-20 ministerial meeting in New Delhi, India, Ebrard told his colleagues that drug and firearms trafficking is doing severe damage to Mexico and other countries
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After arriving hours earlier in New York City to a mixed crowd of avid supporters and equally-avid opponents, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, Nov. 10, made a beeline straight to the UN Headquarters at United Nations Plaza to lecture the General Assembly on the evils of corruption, which he has repeatedly called “the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Sunday, Oct. 17, Nobel laureate and human rights activist Malala Yousafzai issued a personal letter through the international campaigning agency Avaaz to the world on the deteriorating situation of women and girls in her native Afghanistan since the takeover of that country by the Taliban last August. That letter, which was also signed by Afghan women’s
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico announced Thursday, Jan. 14, that it is working to create a proposal with other nations in the Group of 20 (G20), an international group consisting of 19 countries and the European Union, to limit censorship by private social media companies following U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s controversial removal from several online platforms. Trump found himself without
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS When he spoke at the Group of 20 (G-20) internet summit on Sunday, Nov. 22, not only did Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador call on members of the group to forgive Mexico and other underdeveloped nations their external debt, but he also demanded that international interest rates for these countries be the same as those for
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By RICARDO CASTILLO UN Approves AMLO’s Proposal Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposal to both the Group of 20 (G-20) and the United Nations to avoid financial speculation and promote access by all nations to medical covid-19 related instruments for treatment was approved by 179 UN member nations, Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced on Tuesday, April 21.
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By RICARDO CASTILLO AMLO’s Virtual Powwow with G-20 Leaders In what was his first international encounter — even if only virtual — with the Group of 20 (G-20) world leaders on Thursday, March 26, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) vowed the nation’s solidarity with all affected nations and explained his point of view as to how to proceed
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and Argentina
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By RICARDO CASTILLO More than three weeks ago, on June 4, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced that he would not attend the June 29 and 30 gathering of the Group of 20 – G-20 top economies of the world. “I’m making this announcement in advance now,” he said. “I am not going to the meeting of the Group
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