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AMLO’s Daily Tirades against Journalists Are Putting Them in Harm’s Way

Posted on December 21, 2022 by Mark Lorenzana 2 comments

OPINION By MARK LORENZANA In February of this year, the San Diego Union-Tribune published an editorial criticizing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), saying his “rhetoric will get more journalists killed.” Specifically, the Union-Tribune editorial zeroed in on López Obrador’s penchant for labeling journalists — especially journalists who criticize AMLO and his administration — as “thugs,” “mercenaries” and “sellouts.”

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At Least One Dead in Jalisco Shopping-Mall Shooting

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Mark Lorenzana One comment

By MARK LORENZANA A shootout on the afternoon of Sunday, Oct. 2, in one of the most important commercial areas in the municipality of Zapopan in the Mexican state of Jalisco, caused panic among people who were enjoying their time at a shopping center. Local authorities have reported multiple injuries and at least one dead. Video clips of the attack

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AMLO Confirms Disappearance of Navy Sailors in Acapulco

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Mark Lorenzana Leave a comment

By MARK LORENZANA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) confirmed on Thursday, Sept. 29, the disappearance of two elements of Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) since March of this year in Acapulco, Guerrero. AMLO, however, denied that the sailors had been assigned as permanent bodyguards of José Narro Céspedes, a senator from López Obrador’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena). During his daily morning press

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Six Police Officers Gunned Down in Zacatecas Sports Center

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Mark Lorenzana Leave a comment

By MARK LORENZANA Six police officers from the municipality of Calera in the north-central Mexican state of Zacatecas were killed on Wednesday, September 28, after gunmen opened fire on them while they were exercising at a sports center. Zacatecas Governor David Monreal condemned what he called a “cowardly attack,” and offered his condolences to the family, loved ones and colleagues

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Massacres in Mexico Keep on Rising under AMLO’s Watch

Posted on July 12, 2022 by Mark Lorenzana 3 comments

By MARK LORENZANA Six people were killed and at least eight more were injured after armed men stormed a family party in the early-morning hours of Sunday, July 10, in León, the most populous city of the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, local authorities reported. Individuals on board two motorcycles arrived, started shooting and then promptly fled the scene. Among

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10 Gunmen Killed, 7 Wounded in Shootout with Mexican Police

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Xinhua Leave a comment

XINHUA At least 10 “heavily” armed gunmen were shot dead and seven other people were wounded on Tuesday, June 14, in a shootout with Mexican police in the Texcaltitlán municipality, in the central State of Mexico (Edoméx), officials said. The gunfight began when agents from the local prosecutor’s office attempted to carry out an arrest warrant and were met with

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Denver’s Western Saloons Resembled English, Irish Pubs

Posted on May 27, 2022 by Rich Grant One comment

By RICH GRANT People have been buying alcoholic drinks in England for more than a thousand years at a variety of taverns, ale houses, coaching inns and grog shops, but what we think of today as a typical English pub didn’t happen until 1830. In the 1700s, to counter distilled spirits imported from Ireland and Scotland, England encouraged distilling corn