OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has a handy way of dealing with facts and figures he doesn’t like: He simply rewrites them. Yes, the president’s “otros datos” (“different data”) stratagem is a magic wand he can wave over unpleasantries like inflation, economic downturn, crime, corruption and anything else he doesn’t like to make them
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just days after reaching one million confirmed cases of covid-19 infections, the Mexican government reported Thursday, Nov. 19, that its accumulated death count from the disease had now surpassed 100,000. According to the Mexican Public Health Secretariat, as of late Thursday afternoon, 100,104 people had died of coronavirus infections, and there were 1,019,543 confirmed
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By KYLIE MADRY An almost 40 percent increase in deaths from a typical year suggests that Mexico’s official covid-19 count is much lower than the actual death toll. Mexico published its “excess death” statistics late Sunday, Oct. 25, with 193,170 more deaths through September than in an average year. Officially, 88,924 people in Mexico have died of covid-19, about half
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