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Lies, Damn Lies and AMLO’s ‘Otros Datos’

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once famously quipped, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” The point that Disraeli was trying to make is that the selective use of numbers can bolster any argument and disguise any truths to accommodate a political agenda. Nowhere is that persuasive power of carefully culled figures more

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NAIM Cancellation Cost 232 Percent More Than Projected

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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Superior Auditor of the Federation (ASF) calculated that the cancellation of the New Mexico International Airport (NAIM) back in 2018 cost the nation 331.9 billion pesos, almost three times its projected amount. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) National Regeneration Movement (Morena) government previously estimated the cancellation to cost 100 billion pesos, and touted the

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