Creating a Monster
For López Obrador, dismantling the PRI is a key condition for the durability of his ultra-dominant party system, and that has always been the main objective in his obsessive concentration of power
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AMLO Inaugurates First Half of Santa Lucía Airport
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 RICARDO CASTILLO Partial National Shutdown As of Monday, March 30, Mexico officially entered into a month-long economic standstill to prevent close contact among citizens in order to avoid the spread of the Covid-19 virus. The announcement of the partial national shutdown, which will last through April 30, was made by members of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Private Hospital Expropriations Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) published an executive order on Friday, March 27, awarding the federal government the right to “make use of all medical sectors, public, social and private, in the regions affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.” In short, private hospitals may be privatized for pandemic use only. The decree, published
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