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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
Read moreThe Summit of the Americas and an Indecisive AMLO
OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO Just a week before it is set to start, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has yet to decide whether he will attend the June 6 Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California. Over this weekend, AMLO had several opportunities to make a statement as to whether he will attend, but instead kept repeating
Read moreSummit’s Success Hangs in the Balance
OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a growing number of Latin America’s leftist leaders join forces, threatening to boycott the upcoming Ninth Summit of the Americas that is slated to take place in Los Angeles from June 6 through June 10, unless it includes the participation of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, the once-crucial hemispheric meeting could potentially become irrelevant. Both Mexican
Read moreOn Second Day of Operations, Felipe Angeles Fliers Diverted to Mexico City Airport
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF On its second day of operations, passengers slated to travel from Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles International Airport (AIFA) were advised on Tuesday, March 22, that their flights would instead leave out of Mexico City’s Benito Juárez International Airport (AICM). The new airport, which was less than 50 percent operational at its official opening by
Read moreVenezuela’s Maduro Suspends Mediation Talks in Mexico
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The government of Venezuela’s autocratic president, Nicolás Maduro, announced Saturday, Oct. 16, that is is suspending its participation in mediation talks with opposition leaders, that were due to restart on Sunday, Oct. 17. Maduro, a close friend and political ally of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who had initiated the talks in
Read moreUS Senators Admonish AMLO for Accepting Maduro
By KELIN DILLON In a letter addressed to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), U.S. Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott of Florida expressed their disappointment in López Obrador for accepting contested Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro into Mexico, rather than extraditing him to the United States where he faces criminal charges. Since March 2020, Maduro has had pending
Read moreSpeaking at UN, Ebrard ‘Demands’ that US End Cuba Embargo
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in representation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), on Thursday, Sept. 23, once again demanded that the United States end its 59-year economic embargo against Cuba. “In the face of the current severe global economic and health crisis, it is
Read moreCELAC Summit Turns into Shouting Match, Global Fiasco
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The sixth summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), hosted by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) at the National Palace on Saturday, Sept. 18, turned into a daylong shouting match between leftist and conservative leaders, overshadowing any hopes of real regional unity and shining a negative light on AMLO’s already-dubious international
Read moreMexico to Host Venezuela Peace Talks
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite his infamously callous bulldozer approach to diplomacy, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Thursday, Aug. 5, that Mexico will soon host a “mediation process” between Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his political opponents. The president did not say when the mediation would begin, but internal sources in the Mexican government have
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