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AMLO’s War on Huachicol Has Several Fronts

By RICARDO CASTILLO     By shutting off the ducts carrying fuel from the state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in order to stop robbery, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) opened up a Pandora’s box. His problem is now how to shut it closed again. AMLO’s open declaration of war against huachicol (pronounce wa-chee-kol), or fuel theft, is, 17 days since it

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PAN Governors Stage an Early Rebellion

By RICARDO CASTILLO     The rumblings of the upcoming Constitutional Wars are growing thunderous in Mexico’s cloudy political  skies. Over the past two weeks, the group of 12 National Action Party (PAN) governors across the nation are threatening a rebellion against the “dictatorship” of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his majority in both houses of Congress through the National

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Is AMLO’s “New” National Guard Just More of the Same?

By RICARDO CASTILLO     For a prelude to a presidency, surely that of Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has got too many dissonant chords. First it was his decision to control oil crude production that caused a market shakeup and further peso devaluation. Then came the cancelation of the ongoing construction of the new airport that sent markets skidding and pumped the

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