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 Esperanza Gutiérrez Rojano ran like hell out of the plush southern Mexico City Artz Pedregal mall on Wednesday, July 24, a little past 5 p.m., to no avail. Less than a block away, she was stopped by a city policeman and, in no time, she was surrounded by patrol cars. She was laden onto a pick-up converted
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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
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Given the uproar that President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is causing with his governance plans, he devoted the entire week of Nov. 19 to giving out interviews to all those requesting them – mainly radio and television – to clear up his points of view. In all this, it must be considered that, although we are still
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