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Mexico’s Government Abandons Its Disabled Community

By KELIN DILLON In the two years of the current presidential administration, Mexico’s government only gave out scholarships to 10 percent of its disabled population, while cutting millions of pesos in funding from the organization that defends their human rights, leaving the country’s disabled community hung out to dry amid the devastating covid-19 pandemic. According to the National Institute of

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Mexican Army Boosts Budget by 1000 Percent under AMLO

By KELIN DILLON The Mexican Secretariat of National Defense’s (Sedena) Military Equipment Payment and Administration Trust (Fidape) has reportedly increased its budget by 967 percent since the beginning of current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) administration in December 2018, according to figures released by the daily newspaper Reforma. When the previous presidency ended, Fidape’s trust sat at just

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