AMLO Cites Segalmex Fraud as ‘Stain’ of Presidency
The 9.5 billion peso Segalmex embezzlement surpassed that of the controversial 7 billion peso “Master Fraud” case seen under AMLO’s predecessor President Enrique Piña Nieto
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Mexico Among LA Nations with Highest Economic Disparity
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico, along with Chile and Brazil, had the highest economic inequality among Latin American countries, according to a regional report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) released earlier this week. “Despite decades of progress, the region continues to be the second-most-unequal in the world (after the African sub-Sahara), and income inequality in Latin
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Businesses Hit the Outsourcing Panic Button The start of an Open Parliament to discuss Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed reform of outsourcing practices forced the leading business organization representatives to call for an emergency meeting with him that very same day. The president received the businessmen at the National Palace. Given the positioning of
Read moreAMLO Shutters Soup Kitchens
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced on Tuesday, March 12, that his government will be closing 5,000 government operated soup kitchens nationwide this year. The community kitchens were operated by the now-defunct Secretariat of Social Development (Sedesol), which has been replaced by AMLO’s Secretariat of Wellbeing. They fed an average of 500,000
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