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Congress Goes on Untendered Spending Spree, Gives Deputies Huge Bonuses

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s lower house Chamber of Deputies pulled out all the stops when it came to spending in the second half of 2021, handing out untendered contracts right and left (well, maybe more left than right) for unbidded-on services and goods in an effort to use up its allocated annual budget. During the second session

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AMLO and Slim Mend Fences

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By RICARDO CASTILLO Just when everyone in Mexico thought President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and tycoon entrepreneur Carlos Slim had frozen their relationship, last Friday, June 28, they reappeared together in the state of Oaxaca to relaunch the completion of the 150-kilometer-long, two-expanded-lane Milta-Tehuantepec super highway, with an 8-billion-peso investment. Was this event the beginning of the thawing of

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