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All the (Former) Presidents’ Men (and an Ex-President to Boot)

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By RICARDO CASTILLO     What was the political gossip this week in Mexico? Definitely, the “denunciations” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) made of nine past officials for stealing money from the near-bankrupt, still-government-run electricity monopoly, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). As we covered in Pulse News Mexico, on Monday, Feb. 11, the president, during  his daily press conference at the National Palace in downtown Mexico City,

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AMLO Accuses Former Officials of Causing CFE Collapse

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) presented a list on Monday, Feb. 11, of nine high-ranking former government officials – including former President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa — who he said either worked for or collaborated with foreign companies in the electricity sector and contributed to á gradual destruction of the state-owned National Electricity Commission (CFE) that led

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