Mexico General Discussion: Amlodipine

[PSOL]

Health Service chief has resigned due to budget cuts

The head of Mexico’s social security institute has stepped down, citing budget cuts that he said would harm health services for the poor, in one of the first major resignations in the administration of leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

German Martinez, head of the institute known as IMSS, issued his resignation in a letter on the government’s website on Tuesday. In it, he took a swipe at the finance ministry, blaming it for pressure on the IMSS to make savings and cut staff.

It should have been evident that AMLO was going to lead as a non-tipping populist, we all should have seen that coming but didn’t. Either way, his resignation signals that peeled off voters could be in play for the next general election.

[PSOL]

Mexico national guard to deploy on southern border from Monday: minister

[lfromnj]

https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-decriminalize-drugs-negotiate-us-1421395?fbclid=IwAR0jLq0VKrPemJQcdLLk9v00czrUQHSpiJ5EDyyuQBVrkk_Dc0cZapqKVCk

[dead0man]

good news, but it won't catch on here any time soon.  The Nanny State is too strong.

[PSOL]

Referendums May put previous Mexican Presidents in Prison

Speaking after an official said an investigation had been opened on a 2014 scandal that battered the reputation of his predecessor, Enrique Pena Nieto, Lopez Obrador said he did not want to pursue former presidents in court.

But he urged Congress to ratify a proposal approved by the lower house in March that would change the constitution to facilitate referendums and pave the way for a so-called recall vote on his presidency halfway through his six-year term.

“And once (the constitution) has been reformed and these referendums can be held, if the people ask for it and want ex-presidents to stand trial, that right is guaranteed,” Lopez Obrador said at his regular morning news conference.

On Monday, Irma Sandoval, head of the Public Administration Ministry, said the government had filed a criminal complaint against a number of former officials over the case of a luxury house acquired by Pena Nieto’s then-wife, Angela Rivera.

[Omega21]

good news, but it won't catch on here any time soon.  The Nanny State is too strong.

It's mostly the for-profit incarceration system America has going on, more than anything else.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Considering this article is 4 months old, any update?

[PSOL]

Considering this article is 4 months old, any update?

None so far, anyway...

100s in river ‘no-man’s land’ after Mexico troops block way
Other then a few reforms and tweaks to foreign policy, the tightening of border security remains one of the more nastier aspects of AMLO’s tenure. Of course, it would definitely be worse with the Conservatives and PRI in charge, but still not a good thing overall.

[PSOL]

Infighting in MORENA among possible leadership candidates, AMLO staying out of it

[PSOL]

Women’s Strike in Mexico

Dalilah Loza is 15 and dreams of being an orthodontist, or an economist - perhaps even a photographer.

But most of all she wants to be the voice of her mother.

“I’m the only one who can speak for her now. I’m her daughter. I’m the only one who really cares,” said the teenager, whose 33-year-old mother was murdered at their home in Tijuana last September in front of Dalilah and her baby brother.

Before last month Dalilah had never taken part in a political protest.

But when Mexican feminists hit the streets on Valentine’s Day to denounce their country’s worsening femicide crisis, she saw a chance to ensure her mother’s life and death were remembered.

Flanked by scores of mostly young female demonstrators, Dalilah marched on the attorney general’s office clutching a homemade placard with her portrait and the message: “I miss you, mummy”.

“My mum was the best mum in the world,” she remembered, her face lighting up. “You could tell her anything you liked and she’d never tell anyone. She was literally my best friend.”

Dalilah’s mother, Nery Rodei Pelayo Ramírez, was stabbed to death by her boyfriend on 16 September – one of nearly 4,000 Mexican women killed in 2019.

[Xing]

Women’s Strike in Mexico

Dalilah Loza is 15 and dreams of being an orthodontist, or an economist - perhaps even a photographer.

But most of all she wants to be the voice of her mother.

“I’m the only one who can speak for her now. I’m her daughter. I’m the only one who really cares,” said the teenager, whose 33-year-old mother was murdered at their home in Tijuana last September in front of Dalilah and her baby brother.

Before last month Dalilah had never taken part in a political protest.

But when Mexican feminists hit the streets on Valentine’s Day to denounce their country’s worsening femicide crisis, she saw a chance to ensure her mother’s life and death were remembered.

Flanked by scores of mostly young female demonstrators, Dalilah marched on the attorney general’s office clutching a homemade placard with her portrait and the message: “I miss you, mummy”.

“My mum was the best mum in the world,” she remembered, her face lighting up. “You could tell her anything you liked and she’d never tell anyone. She was literally my best friend.”

Dalilah’s mother, Nery Rodei Pelayo Ramírez, was stabbed to death by her boyfriend on 16 September – one of nearly 4,000 Mexican women killed in 2019.

Glad someone is mentioning this. It's really horrific what's going on right now, and AMLO seems completely clueless (or at least he's acting clueless.)

[PSOL]

As was said before in the Mexican Election thread, AMLO is personally conservative in regards to equity between Women and other disadvantaged groups in Mexico.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

But for #populist reasons, because stimulus-friendly technocrats can't be trusted.

https://americasquarterly.org/article/how-amlo-became-latin-americas-fiscal-hawk/

What an idiot.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Ramsay McDonald 2.0. Fantastic.

[Storr]

Another populist dud.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Ramsay McDonald 2.0. Fantastic.

I'll say. What a disappointment.

[Cassius]

Ramsay McDonald 2.0. Fantastic.

I'll say. What a disappointment.

Were AMLO the leader of a developed country I think your point would be fairer - as it is, I think he’s right to be cautious of issuing large amounts of debt that will be snapped up by foreign investors, given that these same investors will want their pound of fiscal flesh at some point down the line. A pound of fiscal flesh that the ratings agencies will be only to happy to give them justification for on the grounds that AMLO has ‘failed to make structural reforms’ and ‘presided over an unsustainable expansion of the debt, deficit and debt to GDP ratio’. Given the unhappy history of both Mexico specifically and the developing world generally with the bond markets I think a cautious stance is justifiable, if not exactly ideal in the present situation.

[CumbrianLefty]

Another populist dud.

You could almost say it was a pattern or something.......

[Kingpoleon]

Ramsay McDonald 2.0. Fantastic.

I'll say. What a disappointment.

AMLO has made it very clear from the beginning that he was more against Pena Nieto than he was for anything. He has all the ties to Castro and Maduro that other Bolivarian Socialists have had and none of the substantive, pro-indigenous/poor reform that made the likes of Morales tolerable to me.

[jaichind]

AMLO prepares to launch new index, an indicator of happiness, well-being

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/amlo-to-launch-gdp-replacement-an-indicator-of-happiness-well-being/

Well, if GDP is going to go down a lot in 2020 you can always come up with a new metric to measure success.

[PSOL]

Well, a lot has happened in recent news for AMLO’s Administration. Outside of the very current firing of the Anti-Discrimination Agency Chief for a racist event, a lot has been going on in the foreign sphere.

https://twitter.com/OVargas52/status/1272553209626628097
This, along with a purported alliance between Foreign media and intel agencies and local media and political parties to undermine AMLO and MORENA was stated by a Mexican document on an unknown leak, as described here by The Grayzone. Considering the usual shenanigans by the PRI and other fronts for Mexican oligarchs, I’d say it’s believable.

While in the past it’s surely a good reason to be distraught at the lack of pace of positive reforms or AMLO being terrible on social issues, the good still outweigh the bad in the corruption campaigns against the PRI and his foreign policy being the most independent for the people of Mexico in a long while.

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexico-president-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-slammed-saying-women-should-n1232218

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been accused of sexism after he suggested that the tradition of women staying at home to take care of older family members was key to battling the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday.

"People want to change women's role and that is one of the just causes of feminism, but the tradition in Mexico is that daughters are the ones who care the most for parents," Lopez Obrador said. "We men are more detached."

[jaichind]

Gea-Isa Poll for 2020 Q2 AMLO approval has it crashing to 39%.  To be fair it seems this pollster does have some sort of a anti-AMLO house effect (Q1 2020 AMLO approval was 47%). Still a fall of 8% is significant.   

[Storr]

Gea-Isa Poll for 2020 Q2 AMLO approval has it crashing to 39%.  To be fair it seems this pollster does have some sort of a anti-AMLO house effect (Q1 2020 AMLO approval was 47%). Still a fall of 8% is significant.   

At least AMLO doesn't have to worry about reelection.

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/20/mexico-corruption-former-presidents-emilio-lozoya

Mexico’s political establishment has been shaken by claims that three former Mexican presidents and an all-star cast of lawmakers and aides may have been involved in alleged acts of corruption.

The accusations were leveled by Emilio Lozoya, the former head of Mexico’s state oil company Pemex, and will boost efforts by the country’s current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to portray himself as an anti-corruption crusader.

López Obrador, a 66-year-old nationalist, swept to power in 2018 pledging to rid Mexico of corruption and unseat the “mafia of power” he claimed had seized control of Latin America’s No 2 economy.

In a leaked 63-page deposition, Lozoya, who was extradited from Spain in July to face corruption charges of his own, dragged some of Mexico’s best-known politicians into a rapidly unfolding scandal.



According to the newspaper El Universal, the former Pemex chief implicated Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico’s president from 2012 until 2018, in multimillion-dollar bribes and illegal campaign financing.

Reuters said Lozoya also claimed that Felipe Calderón – president from 2006 until 2012 – and Carlos Salinas – from 1988 to 1994 – had committed “acts possibly constituting crimes”.