One of the biggest contracts is for the so-called Lake Texcoco Ecological Park, which is being built on the land where the Mexico City New International Airport was to be constructed before it was canceled by López Obrador at the beginning of his term
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Despite Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador repeatedly minimizing the seriousness of the Guacamaya leaks. Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense admitted that its computer equipment “is in a critical state”
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AMLO said that it is “legally and morally valid” for the next head of the National Electoral Institute “to sympathize with Morena,” which is essentially what his Plan C is all about
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In the same bilateral meeting on Monday, Biden also reiterated his government’s priority of solving the problem of fentanyl trafficking into the United States
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OPINION By MARK LORENZANA In February of this year, the San Diego Union-Tribune published an editorial criticizing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), saying his “rhetoric will get more journalists killed.” Specifically, the Union-Tribune editorial zeroed in on López Obrador’s penchant for labeling journalists — especially journalists who criticize AMLO and his administration — as “thugs,” “mercenaries” and “sellouts.”
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations Juan Ramón de la Fuente on Monday, Oct. 10, criticized the annexation by Russia of four Ukrainian territories, and branded the act as illegal. De la Fuente likewise announced that Mexico will vote in favor of a draft resolution in the UN General Assembly condemning Russia for annexing the four Ukrainian
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican journalist Jorge Luis Chew Cervantes posted on his official Facebook account that he is safe and sound, after being reported missing since Friday, Sept. 30, in the municipality of Taxco de Alarcón, in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. “Given the news of my disappearance, I want to inform my friends and followers who are worried about me
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican Treasury Secretary Rogelio Ramírez de la O said he authorized a transfer of 22.5 billion pesos, labeled as “urgent,” to the Dos Bocas refinery in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco — one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial pet projects — at a meeting of the board of directors of state-run oil giant
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