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Not Bad for AMLO’s First 100 Days

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By RICARDO CASTILLO     Among the top achievements that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) managed to accomplish and pass through Congress during his first 100 days, as noted in the address he delivered on Monday, March 11, at the National Palace in Mexico City are three laws: The Law of Eminent Domain, which gives the federal government the authority

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Peña Nieto Ends Term with One Last Gas Hike

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     Just days before he is due to step down after a six-year term as president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto raised the price of gasoline on Friday, Nov. 23. Peña Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ran the country essentially uncontested for more than seven decades until the year 2000, lost overwhelmingly in Mexico’s July 1 elections to

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