Tag Archives: José Cárdenas

Roster 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

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Ackerman: Gringo Expat in Distress

By RICARDO CASTILLO     Is Russia meddling in the on-going Mexican electoral process? Is U.S.-born but now-Mexican citizen and National Autonomous University of Mexico professor John Ackerman Russian President Vladimir Putin’s man in Mexico? Ackerman denies it, but that does not stop the Mexican press from pointing him out as the man behind the Russian election interference ploy? Ackerman adamantly repudiates these allegations and the rumor of

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