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Mexico News Roundup
By RICARDO CASTILLO The Revenant Mexico City Police Chief Omar García Harfuch reappeared in public this week at a press conference with Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum after surviving a June 26 attempt against his life in which his two bodyguards took approximately 40 bullets each. García Harfuch himself was shot several times in the elbow and knee and has been through
Read moreSalvaging a Sinking Pemex
By RICARDO CASTILLO Critics are screaming their throats out claiming that Mexico is in a deep crisis! The daily answer from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) seems to be that Brooklyn street expression when you want to put down someone irately pointing their angry piping hot finger at you (straight out of Martin Scorsese’s 1970s classic “Taxi Driver”): “You
Read moreLies, Damn Lies and AMLO’s Statistics
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In less than two weeks now, Mexico’s very own Man Who Would Be King (oops, I meant to say president), Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), will take office, and for the next six years, the Land of Mañana (Tomorrowland, in a truly Disney sense of the word) will no doubt move forward into an Arcadia of Never
Read morePorfirio Muñoz Ledo, Under the Limelight Again at Age 85
By RICARDO CASTILLO The new Chamber of Deputies president, Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, is a master of political discourse and parliamentary procedures. During the “installation” (to use the Mexican term for inauguration) of the two houses of Congress last Saturday, Sept. 1, Porfirio, at age 85, presided over the inaugural process of the 64th Legislature. And in so doing, he showed his experience
Read moreMexican Tycoons Go Beserk Over AMLO’s Lead
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s top tycoons are slamming down the electoral panic button! One after another, the owners of the nation’s top fortunes are asking their employees to “weigh the balance” (sopesar, in Spanish) of their vote and vote for continuity and stability. What does that mean? Do not vote for the Together We’ll Make History three-party coalition candidate Andrés
Read moreFour Decades of Democracy
Over the years, the myriad of small political parties that came out of the LFOPPE began to be more influential, but they were badly splintered
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