The Mexican Left’s Road to the Presidency
By RICARDO CASTILLO … The leftist parties in Mexico have followed a complicated and convoluted path to political power,..
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AMLO Touts 4T Success in State of the Nation Address
By RICARDO CASTILLO … The Mexican president’s annual State of the Nation Address had few surprises and little new information, but was eloquently presented…
Read moreEclac’s Bárcena: AMLO Grabbed the Bull by the Horns
By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexicans are divided between two opinions: One, those who have faith in the “profound economic model transformation” slowly but surely being promoted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), and two, those AMLO calls “conservative hypocrites,” who are presently even denouncing the Mexican democratic system as nothing less than a scourge for having elected this populist dude
Read moreAlfonso Romo, AMLO’s Link to the Wealthy
By RICARDO CASTILLO In mid-July, former Mexican Treasury Secretary Carlos Urzúa, upon presenting his resignation to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), launched a frontal attack against AMLO’s Chief of Staff Alfonso Romo Garza in an interview. “It’s most difficult to understand the type of relationship, ideologically speaking, Romo has with the president,” Urzúa said. “He’s an extreme right-winger.” Urzúa
Read moreThe Mexican Recession that May Not Be
By RICARDO CASTILLO It’s the end of July and figures are beginning to trickle in regarding the state of Mexico’s economy. The first one landed on Friday, July 26, from the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (Inegi), which is the nation’s foremost authority in gauging financial and industrial trends and the news is not good since the Gross Domestic
Read moreMexican President Declares End of Neoliberal Era
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) officially declared the demise of the country’s 37-year neoliberal era on Sunday, March 17. Speaking at the close of a two-day forum titled “Planning Together the Transformation of Mexico” at the National Palace, the president said that the age of “pillaging, anti-populist and submissive economic policies” was over and a
Read moreThree Journalists Take on AMLO for “Supporting” Maduro
By RICARDO CASTILLO How well are relations between Mexico and the United States doing? Or to be blunt about it, how are relations between U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)? According to a clique of prophets of doom that gather every Wednesday night in a Mexican commentary program called “Tercer Grado” (“Third Degree”) on
Read moreFinally, AMLO Is Now President of Mexico
By RICARDO CASTILLO The change over of presidents in Mexico is always a formal event, and this time was no exception, except for the fact that the style of doing things has changed. Some, if not all, of the stiff formality of yesteryear was absent in the proceedings that took place on Saturday, Dec. 1. The real change of administrations
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