By RICARDO CASTILLO It took Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) 15 years of campaigning to win the presidency on July 1, 2018. So, if you saw him celebrate on Wednesday, July 1, with a triumphal report to the nation. it meant that he is still gorging on the victory and rubbing it in the faces of all the
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A Double-Barrel Shotgun
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What’s on TV?
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AMLO’s Fight with the International Media
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By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s either one or the other, no in between. Either Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is at war with the press, or the press is at war with him. Maybe both. Since being elected president of Mexico, AMLO has been taking a pummeling from the media on a daily basis. Of course, there are the
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Freedom of Expression in Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO …. The Mexican president presented a report claiming that well-known personalities are running bot farms…
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Silencing the Mexican Media
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The rumblings of a head-on clash between Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) press secretary, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, and journalists could be heard loud and clear since the last week of February. Back then, during a conference at the School for Social and Political Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Ramírez Cuevas announced
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Notwithstanding that he will have completed six months in office come June 1, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) continues to deliver defensive speeches. It is important to remember that during his campaign leading up to his overwhelming July 1 victory, there were countless vicious campaigns against AMLO, accusing him of being the next Hugo Chávez
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