Mexico Negotiating with Hamas to Free Kidnapped Mexicans
The nation previously sent two flights manned by the Secretariat of National Defense to bring Mexican citizens that were stranded in Israel back to Mexico
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Norteño Singers Offer Discount to AMLO for Independence Day Concert
PULSE NEWS MEXICO The famed Mexican Norteño band Los Tigres del Norte is slated to perform in the capital’s main plaza Zócalo on Sept. 15, and in order to accommodate the so-called “Franciscan Austerity” of leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the group said Wednesday, Aug. 3, that they will offer his administration a “special discount.” The live, open-air
Read moreAMLO’s Press Secretary Tests Covid-Positive, Exposes Officials
By KELIN DILLON Despite Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, general coordinator of social communication to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), having tested positive for coronavirus over the weekend, AMLO ignored his own government’s covid-19 safety protocols after exposure to the virus to continue with business as usual on Monday, Jan. 11. The Mexican government recommends for anyone who has come into
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
Read moreAMLO vs the Media, or Vice Versa
By RICARDO CASTILLO Over the past week, the ultra-conservative daily Mexican newspaper Reforma has been stabbing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) with a wooden knife. In Mexican journalism, it is deemed that wooden knives do not penetrate deep enough to kill you, but for sure getting “stabbed” with one is a nagging nuisance. Persons who criticize politicians use the
Read moreAckerman Plans to Throw Legal Book at Loret de Mola
By RICARDO CASTILLO Last week, Mexican journalist Carlos Loret de Mola ran on the website Latinus.us an article enumerating the nine real estate properties of Public Function Secretary Irma Eréndira Sandoval and her husband, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) law professor and National Electoral Institute (INE) candidate for councilor appraiser John Mill Ackerman. The exposé, to call it by
Read moreBOA Sets Mexico’s Political Swamp Awiggling
By RICARDO CASTILLO Politicking Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) tossed a boa constrictor into the national political swamp on Tuesday, June 9. No doubt all political toads, snakes and even crocs and other amphibians quietly swimming around jumped out of the water, scared as hell. AMLO had his press secretary Jesús Ramírez Cuevas read aloud a document that
Read moreRoster of Allegedly Crooked Journalists Made Public
By RICARDO CASTILLO The rumblings of a head-on clash between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) press secretary, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, and journalists could be heard loud and clear since the last week of February. Back then, during a conference at the School for Social and Political Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Ramírez Cuevas announced
Read moreAMLO’s Republican Austerity Shakes Down the Press
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
Read moreAnxiety Over AMLO’s Disdain for Personal Security Mounts
By RICARDO CASTILLO There’s a growing concern among most Mexicans over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) disdain for personal security. Friends and political opponents agree that the lax security that has surrounded him for the little over two months he’s been in office has to be reinforced. The president’s problem is that he considers himself to be just one more
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