By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With the railroad blockade by dissident members of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) teachers’ union in the central western state of Michoacán now in its fourth week — and no viable resolution in sight — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has apparently passed the buck on to the National Human
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Baseball aficionado President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was pitched two unrelated labor strikes in a row on the week of Jan. 21. One was in the state of Michoacán concerning teachers, and the other was in the border city of Matamoros launched by maquiladora (in-bond assembly) industry workers. Both strikes were swerving curves that smoked right past batting
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just days before he is due to step down after a six-year term as president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto raised the price of gasoline on Friday, Nov. 23. Peña Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ran the country essentially uncontested for more than seven decades until the year 2000, lost overwhelmingly in Mexico’s July 1 elections to
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Throughout his electoral campaign, Mexico’s now-President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) kept on promising something he calls “the fourth transformation”, as well as the construction of the “Fourth Republic.” In reality, the concept is not new, since AMLO has been hammering on the “transformation” of Mexico since his first run for president back in 2006, when he lost by a
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Nowadays, the big news in México is full of announcements about the shape of things to come for the 2018-2024 administration of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). But the one item that really grabbed public attention this past week as the future president appointed his cabinet was the place where their offices will be: the National Palace. “They will all have
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