By RICARDO CASTILLO Many political observers are having trouble settling into the idea that Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is on a steady victory path heading up to the final lap of the Mexican presidential race. The number of offensive labels being tagged to AMLO is overwhelming, ranging from “liberal madman” to someone craving “absolute power.” And in between, he may also be trying out the
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican senate candidate Nestora Salgado has filed slander and defamation charges against Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate José Antonio Meade. During the May 20 presidential debate, Meade said that “criminal kidnapper” Nestora and Miners and Metal Workers’ Union leader Napoleón Gómez were “convicts” who did not have the right to become legislators. Fake news on the part of
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Last Sunday, May 6, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate José Antonio Meade Kuribreña made a second launching of his floundering campaign. The change came perhaps too late, just 50 days before Mexico’s July 1 election. The fact is that until then, Meade – seen as an honest and indeed enthusiastic candidate – was one of a group of
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