OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS In a blatant act of me-tooism, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Wednesday, Nov. 16, that — after having first denied the massive 500,000-plus turnout of the nationwide March for Democracy on Sunday, Nov. 13, in defense of the country’s National Electoral Institute (INE), which he has been champing at the bits to abolish
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By MARK LORENZANA Economic experts in Mexico have questioned the numbers that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) presented in his fourth State of the Nation Address (Informe de Gobierno) at the National Palace in Mexico City on the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 1, and accused him of “not sticking to reality.” The analysts, in a report by Mexican
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AMLO’s Fourth State of the Nation Address
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By MARK LORENZANA With his popularity dropping, violence growing and the country’s economy crashing, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 1, tried his hardest to put a positive spin on his administration’s shortcomings through his State of the Nation Address (Informe de Gobierno) at the National Palace in Mexico City. The 50-minute speech
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AMLO’s Fourth Annual State of the Nation Address
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AMLO’s Fourth State of the Nation Address
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With the government’s new Dos Bocas oil refinery slated to open in July and the expanded operations of the Paraíso refinery in Tabasco, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Tuesday, April 12, that Mexico will be self-sufficient in gasoline, diesel and turbine fuel production by the year 2023. Speaking during his quarterly State
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After AMLO’s State of the Nation Address
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Despite a dramatic 74 percent uptick in violent crimes, a 7.3 percent increase in poverty, a contraction of the national economy every year since he took office, and, lest we forget, a dismal mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of nearly 260,000 Mexicans (and that’s just based on the official numbers, outside
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AMLO’s Third State of the Nation Address
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