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

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Ricardo Castillo Leave a comment

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

Posted on February 11, 2019 by Thérèse Margolis One comment

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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The Rise and Fall of the Mexican Partycracy Political System

Posted on November 16, 2018 by Ricardo Castillo One comment

By RICARDO CASTILLO It was 30 years ago that Mexico took a veritable turn towards becoming a democratic system. At the time, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) still ruled the nation. Yet the man who became president on Dec. 1, 1988, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, noticed that the lights had changed and that the PRI had to let go of

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