By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico Pre-Purchases Covid Vaccines Mexico clinched the purchase of 200 million anti-covid-19 vaccines to protect 100 million people (about 80 percent of the population), the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) announced through Twitter on Friday, Nov. 27. SRE Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and the secretariat’s team of vaccine procurement buyers for individual laboratories and the World Health Organization (WHO)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Peña Nieto Not Under Investigation What? Fake news in the Wall Street Journal? You bet ya! This past week, the WSJ published a news item claiming that Mexican Fiscal General Alejandro Gertz Manero had evidence that corruption in the Pemex-related Emilio Lozoya Austin case reached to the highest level, inferring that former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The 10-page-long resignation letter Senator Germán Martínez Cázares sent to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Tuesday, May 21, resigning from the directorate post of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) marked a turn of political chess castling even before the president has been in office for six months. Immediately after Martínez Cázares’
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