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Mexico, G20 to Create Proposal Limiting Internet Censorship

By KELIN DILLON Mexico announced Thursday, Jan. 14, that it is working to create a proposal with other nations in the Group of 20 (G20), an international group consisting of 19 countries and the European Union, to limit censorship by private social media companies following U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s controversial removal from several online platforms. Trump found himself without

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INE and AMLO Clash Over Upcoming Elections

By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador publicly clashed heads this week over whether or not AMLO will be able to hold his daily press conferences during the upcoming mideterm elections this June. Lorenzo Córdova, president of the INE, said on Tuesday, Jan. 12, that López Obrador would have to suspend his

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Landau Calls Siege on US Capitol ‘Unacceptable’

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau said Thursday, Jan. 7, that the assault on the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. was “unacceptable.” “There is a clear line between political protest and dissidence, on one hand, and violence and intimidation, on the other,” Landau said on his official government Twitter account. “The events that

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The Horror! The Horror!

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Regardless of their political leaning — Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative — what Americans witnessed in Washington, D.C. yesterday, Wednesday, Jan. 6, represented a repugnant and shameful disgrace for every U.S. citizen. The savage violation of the U.S. Capitol building by a mob of rightwing ultraists who, egged on and enabled by the incendiary rhetoric of

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