By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Pandora Papers, which were released on Sunday, Oct. 3, by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), exposing the offshore financial havens and hidden riches of some of the world’s biggest movers and shakers, has opened a whole new can of worms for the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS More than 3,000 Mexicans — including three billionaires and a former close advisor to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) — have been implicated in the so-called Pandora Papers, a trove of more than 11.8 million documents collected by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) that exposes secretive offshore accounts that allowed government leaders, financial tycoons
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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
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Just when everyone in Mexico thought President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and tycoon entrepreneur Carlos Slim had frozen their relationship, last Friday, June 28, they reappeared together in the state of Oaxaca to relaunch the completion of the 150-kilometer-long, two-expanded-lane Milta-Tehuantepec super highway, with an 8-billion-peso investment. Was this event the beginning of the thawing of
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