By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is not unaccustomed to bad press. Ever since he took office in December 2018 for what he has promised will be a normal six-year term (as specified in the Mexican Constitution, but which many of his detractors fear he will extend, as he has already extended the constitutional term of
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s expanding military, under the lead of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has seen its trust increased by 32.4 percent already in the first quarter of 2021 since the end of 2020, according to a report published in Reforma. Figures show the Military Equipment Administration and Payment Trust (Fidape) received 15.8 billion pesos in funding just
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By KELIN DILLON Over 2,000 micro- to medium-sized construction companies in Mexico are at risk of closure following the Mexican government’s repeated decisions to entask the country’s military with construction projects. The Mexican army has been given jurisdiction over the building of the Santa Lucía Airport and the Tren Maya, the construction of Bienestar Bank branches and the remodeling of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what constituted his first trimestral State of the Nation Address on the night of Tuesday, March 30, Mexican President Andrés Manuel (AMLO) painted a rosy economic and social portrait of the country, promising a “new utopia” despite an 8.5 percent economic contraction in 2020 and more than 300,000 deaths so far from covid-19.
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By KELIN DILLON Following the announcement of Mexico’s military being bestowed full control over Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) pet project Tren Maya, including all of its profits, concerns have been raised about the extent of the military’s grasp over the country. The military currently handles 27 areas that are civilian in nature. Three days after the Tren
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By KELIN DILLON The new Military Air Base (BAM) of the Santa Lucía International Airport was inaugurated on Wednesday, Feb. 10, to mark its construction reaching 50 percent of its completion,with its first fly in by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). Mexico’s newest BAM reportedly cost 82.136 billion pesos, including its connection by land to the Mexico City
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By KELIN DILLON The Mexican Secretariat of National Defense’s (Sedena) Military Equipment Payment and Administration Trust (Fidape) has reportedly increased its budget by 967 percent since the beginning of current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration in December 2018, according to figures released by the daily newspaper Reforma. When the previous presidency ended, Fidape’s trust sat at just
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) inaugrated new military barracks for the National Guard (GN) in Moctezuma, Sonora, on Wednesday, Dec. 17, further cementing his hold over Mexico’s military operations. It also cements his ever-growing military control over the country. López Obrador christened the newly constructed barracks accompanied by Sonora Governor Claudia Artemiza Pavlovich Arellano, who
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Six former U.S. envoys warn against a premature pullout
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Back in early 19th century, Auguste Agassiz, the soft-spoken second son of a conservative Protestant family that had, for centuries, lived in same rural Swiss village of Agiez, near Lake Neuchatel, in the mountainous canton of Vaud, decided to break with tradition and move to the western canton of Bern. For Auguste – who, it had been
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