By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS More than 650 Mexican journalists, filmmakers, writers, lawyers and other intellectual thinkers signed an open letter to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, Sept. 17, imploring him to respect freedom of the press. “President López Obrador uses his constant public discourse to stigmatize and defame those he deems to be his adversaries,” read the letter,
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Among the myriad of events the Mexican Senate hosts on a practically daily basis, last Wednesday, Feb. 6, one of them did not garner much attention, at first. But as time went by, many eyebrows are beginning to be raised and people are starting to wonder what a bunch Russian politicos were doing in Mexico. The meeting
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Sunday night television is never prime-time viewing in Mexico. But last Sunday, May 20, ratings were through the roof on a double-header featuring first the Mexican Soccer League championship game between the Torreón Saints and Toluca Red Devils, and, later, the second of three presidential debates, this time featuring the “Fantastic Four” hopefuls. In case you’re interested, the Saints became
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