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AMLO Announces Three Reforms to Mexican Constitution

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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced his pursuit of three significant changes to the Mexican Constitution on Tuesday, June 15, focusing on reforms to the document’s electrical, electoral and military sections. López Obrador proposed constitutional electrical reform seeks to strengthen the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) so that standard users will not pay higher rates

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AMLO Plans to Incorporate National Guard into Army

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Based on an article published over the weekend in El Universal newspaper, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) intends to incorporate his 160,000-member-strong National Guard (GN) into the country’s National Defense Secretariat (Sedena). According to the El Universal report, in a recent meeting with “a small group of Mexican businessmen,” AMLO let it slip that he

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Historic Number of Women in AMLO’s Cabinet

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By KELIN DILLON For the first time in the history of Mexico, almost half of the federal government’s secretariats will now be headed by women. The new cabinet of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will consist of nine women and 10 men, the closest gender differential ever seen in a Mexican president’s cabinet. The appointments break traditional gendered

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Mexican Federales Revolt against National Guard ‘Discrimination’

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By RICARDO CASTILLO     The revolt of Mexico’s Federal Police against their new bosses, the National Guard (GN) commanders, was the culmination of tensions that had been in the making for a while now. (See my previous article on the issue “Trump’s Adamancy Sparks Frictions within National Guard.”) On Wednesday, July 3, some 300 members of a total of 10,000 that

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