By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has called on his opponents to agree to a political “truce” in order to abate an anti-AMLO tidal wave of fake and not-so-fake news that has recently been unleashed on Twitter and which AMLO claims is being fed by troll farms. As an example, AMLO pointed to one tweet out
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Weathering a Perfect Storm Over the past few days, representatives of all o Mexico’s major banks have held separate press conferences previous to the annual Mexico Banks Association Convention, now being held in Acapulco. Each of the interviewed representatives showed acceptance for the policies of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). This is an indicator that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Mexico’s Economy Shielded In one of the multiple events of the four-day-long 31st Reunion of Ambassadors and Consuls 2020 organized by the Foreign Relations Secretariat (SRE) from Jan. 7 to Jan. 10, Treasury Secretary Arturo Herrera took the forum as an opportunity to claim that Mexico – one year after Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO)
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Let’s not misinterpret facts: For Mexicans, the man who will be on trial in the United States for providing legal protection to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel will not be former Mexican Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna, but rather his boss, the man who appointed him and protected him in that post from 2006 to 2012, former
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By RICARDO CASTILLO A Ruckus in Mexico, Silence in United States All hell has broken loose in the Mexican media in the past 48 hours over an nterview between former Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, who fired from his post in April 2017 on charges of sexual assault, and U.S. President Donald Trump, who has, at times, also
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … A quick review of the most important news items in Mexico over the last few days…
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … Every time something goes wrong under his watch, the Mexican president blames his predecessors…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO …. “We do not receive or take orders from the U.S. government,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says…
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By RICARDO CASTILLO … On Oct. 30, AMLO summoned the two secretaries responsible for national security to tell the public what really happened in Culiacán…
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