Mexico General Discussion: Amlodipine

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Seems like his first agenda
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-crime/incoming-mexican-president-to-seek-negotiated-peace-in-drug-war-idUSKBN1JW22S

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Let’s see what this comes to.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-politics-energy/mexicos-next-president-aims-to-end-foreign-fuel-imports-in-three-years-idUSKBN1JX10P

He’s cutting off energy exports. Funny thing is I remembered there being news on protests regarding privatization of the national oil company. Mexico is also an oil importer who just sells it to the US. Similar to Egypt selling gas to Israel.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-oil-theft/mexico-fuel-theft-crackdown-sparks-shortages-puts-government-on-defensive-idUSKCN1P11OJ

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Mexico wants firms to revise contracts so electric rates don't rise

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Mexico's national guard won't be military-led

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It’s for the best that any effective security force in Mexico not be connected to the PRI-dominated, and thus corrupt, military. Good that the Drug War is tackled through civilian choice and smarts, instead of the money-making security scheme cooked up by his predecessors.

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Mexico Senate picks wife of president's business ally for Supreme Court

At the second time of asking, the Senate voted by an overwhelming majority to approve the nomination of Yasmin Esquivel, a Mexico City judge married to Jose Maria Rioboo, a construction magnate with close ties to Lopez Obrador.

After her ratification, Esquivel, who has rejected any suggestion that her relationship with Rioboo could compromise her integrity at the court, vowed to uphold the independence of the judiciary in serving her 15-year term.

Some things just don’t change with elections, I suppose. If she screws up, AMLO is going to get all the heat.

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Mexican president says to return 'stolen' wealth to the people

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he will create a “Robin Hood” institute to return to the people the ill-gotten wealth seized from corrupt politicians and gangsters.

His administration is drawing up a bill to create an independent “Robin Hood” institute “against the corrupt” that would put confiscated goods such as real estate, jewelry and cars into the public’s hands, the president told reporters.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The economy continues to suffer

Gross domestic product fell 17.1% in seasonally adjusted terms in the April-June period from the prior quarter, data from the national statistics agency showed Wednesday. Compared with the same quarter last year, GDP contracted 18.7%.

“Data for the second quarter confirms the Mexican economy had its worst quarterly decline of the last eight decades, after the crash in 1932 caused by the Great Depression,” said Alfredo Coutino, an economist at Moody’s Analytics.

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Mexico rejects ex-President Calderon's bid to register new political party

Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) has denied former President Felipe Calderon’s bid to register his Free Mexico movement as a new political party, saying some of its funding was questionable.

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INE’s general council rejected the party in a seven-to-four vote, saying late on Friday that its decision was due to Free Mexico “having more than 5% of contributions from unidentified people.”

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Outside of sucking on the right for a woman to live, there’s also this

Mexican farmers in the drought-stricken state of Chihuahua are pitted against riot squads from the national guard in an increasingly violent standoff over their government’s decision to ship scarce water supplies to the United States.

The confrontation has already led to bloodshed: earlier this month, a woman was shot dead and her husband was wounded after guardsmen opened fire on farmers wielding sticks and stones.

The Mexican government, meanwhile, has accused protesters of being backed by opposition politicians and sabotaging La Boquilla dam, which holds some of the water it wants to send north.

Yankees don’t deserve one drop of Mexican water.

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Outside of sucking on the right for a woman to live, there’s also this

Mexican farmers in the drought-stricken state of Chihuahua are pitted against riot squads from the national guard in an increasingly violent standoff over their government’s decision to ship scarce water supplies to the United States.

The confrontation has already led to bloodshed: earlier this month, a woman was shot dead and her husband was wounded after guardsmen opened fire on farmers wielding sticks and stones.

The Mexican government, meanwhile, has accused protesters of being backed by opposition politicians and sabotaging La Boquilla dam, which holds some of the water it wants to send north.

Yankees don’t deserve one drop of Mexican water.

What in the world is AMLO's #populist justification for this?

The farmers are shills for the opposition

Hopefully the Labour Party break with Morena once AMLO is out of the way, or at least lead to a revival of the Mexican Left before the early 1970s.

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Mexico’s scientists, activists and artists oppose president’s funding overhaul

Scientists, human rights defenders and artists in Mexico have warned that a plan to overhaul government funding structures threatens the future of activities as diverse as medical research, disaster response, film production and journalist protections in the country.

Mexico’s lower house of congress is expected to vote on Tuesday on a proposal to abolish 109 public trusts, diverting approximately $3bn to other priorities such as the Covid-19 pandemic response.

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MORENA party president primary

https://twitter.com/americaelige/status/1315506729266814976

Most of them seem like ex-PRD folks who left with AMLO. All that is certain is that when AMLO isn’t in full political charge, the party will probably break apart in this new environment.

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What I’m seriously interested in is finding out the state of the opposition. Exactly what is the status of PRI, PAN, and PVEM in Mexican politics right now? All the information in English that I could come across indicates that the PRD has ceased being a functioning party in all but name.

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Even with a bare majority, I’m pretty sure the AMLO alliance can peel a few scant seats from PRI and PRD after-the-fact. Also considering that there’s more to lose with the various coalition possibilities on the anti-AMLO bloc, I’d say AMLO is actually safe till the election after this one, but the focus now is enacting reforms to make him popular again and change Mexico with it.

One of the things that most interests me is with the PRI. The longer they aren’t in power and end up aligning with PAN, the looser their grip is on the few institutions and reliable voter bases they have left. Depending on how long AMLO remains President, he could do quite a bit of shaking with the bureaucracy and military that were previously staffed with loyal PRIistas.

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Even with a bare majority, I’m pretty sure the AMLO alliance can peel a few scant seats from PRI and PRD after-the-fact. Also considering that there’s more to lose with the various coalition possibilities on the anti-AMLO bloc, I’d say AMLO is actually safe till the election after this one, but the focus now is enacting reforms to make him popular again and change Mexico with it.

One of the things that most interests me is with the PRI. The longer they aren’t in power and end up aligning with PAN, the looser their grip is on the few institutions and reliable voter bases they have left. Depending on how long AMLO remains President, he could do quite a bit of shaking with the bureaucracy and military that were previously staffed with loyal PRIistas.

I can't imagine that he'd seek re-election, trampling the massive precedent set by the Mexican Revolution. Especially someone like him who has made Mexican history such a centerpiece of his image.

Power, with the excuse of a “lack of better options”, is always tempting. 

One other thing that really baffles me is where do the urbanite liberals go to right now? Both PAN and MORENA have conservative elements in them and the PRD and MC are all but irrelevant in vast swathes of the nation. Going by their class status, PAN seems like a likely home, but the conservatism and support for the middle-class shopkeeps and “old economy” corporations leaves little for them to influence politics.

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They’re setting to legalize cannabis. I guess this is AMLO’s way of both gaining support with the youth after the femicide murders and to raise the economy’s prospects. It’s most likely going to be a successful gamble.

Exactly what will happen to MC and PRD’e remaining support will most likely be quite negative for the respective parties. They f•••ed themselves by aligning with the conservatives.