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Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is among the five world leaders who have decided to hold off on recognizing Joe Biden’s election. But in Mexico this is becoming a conservative talking point for promoting Trump’s narrative. Mexico’s President has developed a close relationship with Trump, despite Trump’s constant attacks against Mexicans. On Saturday Lopez Obrador told reporters that he doesn’t want to be imprudent and that he wants to wait until the electoral process is finished. In Mexico, the ambiguous message from López Obrador immediately triggered a media firestorm from critics charging that the Mexican president had essentially sided with Trump. U.S. congressman Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat went to Twitter to denounce the Mexican president’s decision as a diplomatic failure at a time when the incoming Biden Administration is looking to a new era of friendship and cooperation with Mexico.” https://twitter.com/valerialeony/status/1325681081706639361?s=20 Political analysts have asked: “What kind of retribution is…

This is President López Obrador’s first trip abroad since he took office in 2018. During this time, he has mostly delegated issues of foreign affairs to members of his cabinet, choosing not to travel beyond his country’s borders during more than 18 months in office. But the timing of this first face-to-face meeting with Trump, which marks the start of a new North American trade deal, has raised questions in Mexico about whether the visit might be interpreted as support for the reelection of President Trump.  López Obrador has faced widespread criticism for seeking out a meeting with Trump given the U.S. president’s history of blasting Mexico over immigration and border security. Still, López Obrador insisted the trip was positive for Mexico. He explained that he has chosen to go in the hopes of preserving Mexico’s most important commercial relationship.  https://youtu.be/79JllSbXXeg

It is his first State of the Union speech and Mexico’s President is celebrating an agreement with the United States. Lopez Obrador’s government reached a deal with the Trump administration to overcome the threat of tariffs on trade, it was in exchange for sending troops to Mexico’s southern border. All negotiated under US President Trump’s crackdown on the flow of undocumented migrants entering America. One of the Mexican President’s priorities he discussed is the newly created National Guard, which was deployed in part to curb unregulated migration. Much of Lopez Obrador’s political messaging, including his first State of the Union Address, focuses on his effort to fight violence with education. For political analyst, Esteban Illades, Lopez Obrador’s messages portray a conception of reality that differs from what’s happening in the country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhFbPtsrvL8&t=5s Despite the protests and temperamental relationship with his American neighbors, Lopez Obrador still enjoys a 68 percent approval rating.…

It’s been a year since Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was elected President, and seven months since he took office. He launched two of his signature programs: scholarships for young people who are out of work and pension plans for people over 65 years old. His austerity plan reduced the wages of highly paid government officials’, and budget cuts were applied in a number of federal ministries. This left many government workers without a job. For economic analyst José Luis de la Cruz these austerity measures might have a negative impact on the country’s growth Lopez Obrador’s agenda shifted after U.S. President Trump threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican goods if Mexico couldn’t rapidly reduce the northbound flow of migrants. At the national palace in Mexico City, AMLO holds a daily morning conference allowing reporters to ask questions. But the relationship between Mexico’s President and journalists has been particularly complicated.  FULL STORY: https://www.univision.com/univision-news/amlos-first-anniversary-in-power-how-voters-in-mexico-are-responding-video

Dos huicholes de la comunidad Del Nayar en Nayarit deambulan por las calles de la Ciudad de México en espera de ser recibidos por el Presidente López Obrador. Fueron invitados a la ceremonia de entrega de bastón de mando el 1 de diciembre, pero ahora aguardan frente al Palacio de Gobierno tocando su música tradicional indígena. Sus peticiones son necesidades básicas: sistema de salud, vivienda y caminos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkv8cXaCATs Desde la Ciudad de México para Univisión, Valeria León.

La entrada de la presente administración morenista ha roto múltiples récords en el país. Podemos hablar de muchas “primeras veces” que confirman el parteaguas político hacia una nueva era. Por primera vez un partido con tal solo cuatro años de existencia es la primera fuerza del país con la mayoría en ambas cámaras y las gubernaturas de cinco de las nueve entidades que cambiaron de administración en 2018, incluidas dos de las que tienen mayor población y electores: la CDMX y Veracruz. El efecto AMLO arrasa también en la capital, pues no solo ganó la jefatura de gobierno con su candidata Claudia Sheinbaum, sino que se llevó 11 de las 16 alcaldías. Pero todos estos cambios no se han dado por generación espontánea, como bien señala el magistrado, Edgar Elías Azar, desde hace muchos años se han ido construyendo las circunstancias para que se pueda hablar de una nueva era en política en México.…

Surrounded by thousands of supporters on the main square the night he won the presidential election, 64-year-old Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador- or AMLO as he is known- promised not to disappoint his supporters after winning the presidential elections by the highest margin of the past two decades. His previous bids for president in 2006 and 2012, first with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and then a coalition of the Labour Party (PT) and the Citizens’ Movement (MC) were both unsuccessful. The 2006 campaign was lost to Felipe Calderon of the right-wing National Action Party (PAN) by less than one percent of the vote and was marked by biter accusations of fraud. But in the wake of his 2012 loss by over seven percentage points to the traditionalist PRI party candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto, AMLO became disillusioned with party in-fighting, left the PRD and officially established the left-wing anti-establishment…

Mexico gets its first leftist leader in decades Combined with a deep sense of nationalism and his own place in history, he sees his inauguration as a historic “fourth transformation” of Mexico, following independence from Spain, the liberal reforms that broke the church’s dominance in the 1850s and the 1910-1917 revolution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq1M2T-zzRg Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is beginning his six-year term as Mexico’s 57th president on Saturday. He takes up the role amid high expectations and some controversy, due to his confrontational style. He says he plans to dismantle many of his predecessor’s policies. Valeria Leon has more from Mexico City. Full Story  https://www.trtworld.com/americas/lopez-obrador-becomes-mexico-s-new-president-22125

En esta ciudad fronteriza se han comenzado a gestar proyectos culturales y comerciales con la esperanza de cambiar un entorno antaño sumido en la violencia. TIJUANA, B. C.— Es un día nublado y las gaviotas revolotean sobre la frontera de los 3,000 kilómetros que separan a México y Estados Unidos. Las aves tienen un lugar predilecto para observar: la barda de fierro que termina en el océano, en el área conocida como Las Playas de Tijuana. Del lado estadounidense se ve, a la distancia, a tres hombres montando a caballo. Al tener visible el letrero “No trespassing” dan vuelta y retornan a la ciudad naval. Del lado mexicano, en cambio, hay grupos en vivo tocando música banda junto a la barda fronteriza. El estruendo es tal, que en los restaurantes colindantes al muro es difícil dialogar. Los músicos portan vestimenta colorida y tocan junto a un letrero que cuelga en…