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Mexico’s UN Envoy Condemns Russia, AMLO Remains ‘Neutral’

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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New Hi-Tech, Low-Cost Smart Phone Comes to Mexico

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Smooth, a new hi-tech, android-interfaced smartphone company, began operations in Mexico on Friday, Sept. 23, offering innovative mobile telephony devices at affordable prices. Smooth offers a variety of mobile phones with 3G coverage and quick, reliable after-sale service to ensure dependable connectivity both throughout Mexico and internationally. With smartphones starting as low as 2,000 pesos, Smooth provides

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Preventive Detention, a Means of Control and Abuse in Latin America

By MARK LORENZANA In March of this year, the government of El Salvador, headed by President Nayib Bukele, declared a state of emergency after police recorded a total of 62 homicides in a single day. It marked the most violent day in 30 years for the Central American country, which has contended with criminal gangs for decades. El Salvador has

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Mexican Supreme Court Wants to Eliminate Automatic Preventive Detention

By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) is set to eliminate automatic preventive detention (jail without bail) in the country, arguing that it violates the human rights provided for in international treaties, in addition to the fact that it has been the reason for condemnation of Mexico by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR). The move by the SCJN

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AMLO Sends Aid to Help Cuba Put Out Oil Fire

PULSE NEWS MEXICO As a massive crude oil fire in the Cuban port of Matanzas continued to burn for a second day, spreading to yet another storage tank and threatening the island nation’s already-limited energy supply, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Saturday, Aug. 6, announced that he would be sending humanitarian assistance in the form of military

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Biden to AMLO: Immigration Issue Must Be a Joint Effort

By MARK LORENZANA The immigration issue needs to be a joint effort between Mexico and the United States, U.S. President Joe Biden told his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), during their conversation at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, Tuesday, July 12. López Obrador urged Biden to adapt an aggressive program to resolve immigration

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The View from the North: AMLO Takes on the US Senate

OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has repeatedly taken swipes at Cuban-American Senators Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Bob Menéndez during his regular press conferences this month, piling on from criticism lobbed by him at the three in the past. López Obrador has accused the three senators, along with other Cubans living in the

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AMLO Won’t Go to Americas Summit (Surprise, Surprise!)

OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After much hemming and hawing, and trying to use his attendance as a political leverage peck against U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Monday, June 6, announced — finally — that he will not attend the four-day Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, which actually had begun that same

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