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Post by jdredd on Mar 23, 2018 3:19:45 GMT -5
A little more than 3 months until the Mexican election, and there is still a chance Obrador will be Mexico's next Prez, though I wouldn't bet the farm in it. Do you think the US is meddling in the election to stave off a PRD win? Naaaahh. Who do you think we are, the Russians? But a PRD win would be a revolution of sorts. Not that I think they will make any serious changes to the status quo.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 26, 2018 17:18:51 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/business/energy-environment/mexico-election-oil-companies-usa.html?module=WatchingPortal®ion=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=3&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F04%2F26%2Fbusiness%2Fenergy-environment%2Fmexico-election-oil-companies-usa.html&eventName=Watching-article-click"HOUSTON — As President Trump moves to recast trade and border relations with Mexico, American oil companies are worried that the prospective winner of Mexico’s presidential election will play his own nationalist card. The leading candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, wants to reverse policies that have tied a knot between Mexico and the United States in recent years in energy production and consumption. And he has promised to make sure that oil never falls “back into the hands of foreigners.” In addition to threatening refinery profits in the United States, his proposals could slow oil production in Texas and impede deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico by international oil giants like Exxon Mobil and Chevron. They would also jeopardize the United States’ energy trade surplus with Mexico, which reached roughly $15 billion last year.Mr. López Obrador a former mayor of Mexico City with leftist leanings, has a comfortable lead in the polls ahead of the July 1 vote. He has moderated his tone since losing the presidential race six years ago, but he has proposed a sweeping reorientation of the nation’s energy policy with an emphasis on independence from the United States." Obrador must be the candidate of "Mexico First". You can bet the CIA, always working at the behest of American energy companies, is working overtime against him. Oh, I forgot, WE don't interfere in other country's elections.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 19, 2019 15:57:28 GMT -5
Well, the PRD has been in charge of Mexico for several months now, and it looks like it's business as usual. Obrador is even cooperating with the Orange Monster on a number of issues. Why am I surprised?
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Post by jdredd on May 10, 2019 10:21:38 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/world/americas/amlo-mexico-lopez-obrador.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage"MEXICO CITY — After his landslide victory last year, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico promised a staggering transformation of his country — on par with independence from Spain and the Mexican Revolution. But five months into his term, the new Mexico he says he is building looks an awful lot like the old one he swore to leave behind. Corruption was a hallmark issue for Mr. López Obrador during the campaign, a national scourge he vowed to end. Yet his government has announced no major prosecutions of public officials or other prominent figures on corruption charges since he took office." Like Clinton and Obama, Obrador campaigned like a leftist but is ruling as a business-as-usual centrist. Maybe it doesn't matter who is President in either country, once they are in office they all serve the Investorocracy.
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Post by jdredd on May 31, 2019 0:14:43 GMT -5
Obrador has been doing his best to kiss Trump's ass, and look what it is getting him: tariffs.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 3, 2019 20:13:55 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/world/americas/mexico-migration-crackdown.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage"In late March, Mr. Trump threatened to close the border with Mexico to thwart migration. He also moved to cut off aid to the Central American countries sending most of the migrants to the United States. Mexico appeared to respond quickly, with detentions and deportations jumping almost immediately.In April, nearly 15,000 migrants were deported by Mexico, up from about 9,100 in March, according to government statistics. The monthly tally climbed even higher in May. Over the last two months, the López Obrador administration deported 67 percent more migrants than its predecessor did during the same period in 2018. “The López Obrador administration clearly wants to create a different approach to managing migration that treats migrants more humanely,” said Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute in Washington. “But faced by the exponential growth in the flow and the pressure from the Trump administration to stop it, they have mostly fallen back on an enforcement-only approach, like previous Mexican administrations.” So Obrador is bending over for Trump. Which reminds me of something I said years ago: You can trust a conservative to do the wrong thing, but you can't trust a liberal to do the right.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 8, 2019 1:08:59 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/politics/trump-tariffs-mexico.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Politics"For Mexico, the president’s threat was a replay of past episodes in which Mr. Trump ranted about the country’s lack of immigration enforcement. This year, he threatened to shut down the entire southwestern border, backing off only after aides showed him evidence that Mexican authorities were taking aggressive action to stop migrants. This time, Mexican authorities were under similar pressure to find something that would mollify Mr. Trump.According to a United States-Mexico Joint Declaration distributed late Friday, Mexico agreed to “take unprecedented steps to increase enforcement to curb irregular migration,” including the deployment of its national guard throughout the country to stop migrants from reaching the United States." So Obrador found a way to kiss Trump's ass. Which proves once again that bullying works, at least with Mexico.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 18, 2019 4:11:11 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/opinion/the-amlo-trump-migration-ramos.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Still, it is the Central American immigrants who are the real losers in this crisis. They have every right to feel betrayed. During the early days of the López Obrador administration, Mexico welcomed them, promising them visas and jobs. Then, without notice, the government started deporting them by the thousands. Now, with this new immigration deal in place, Central Americans will have no safe passage at all. Nothing can stop a mother or a father when their children’s lives are in danger. The AMLO-Trump deal may slow down the Central American immigration wave but won’t stop it. It’s simply too powerful." Sad that Obrador turned out to be such a coward. Mexico still needs a revolution.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 27, 2019 1:44:12 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/world/americas/Ayotzinapa-mexico-students-anniversary.html"That weekend began like so many others in the southern Mexico town: The main square hosted a political rally and there was a soccer match nearby. Students from a rural teacher-training college were trying to secure buses for a trip to Mexico City. But what happened on that Friday, Sept. 26, 2014, has become a symbol of the violence, impunity and broken rule of law that plagues Mexico. By the end of the night, six people were dead, and 43 of the students, last spotted being forced into police trucks, had vanished. Five years on, their whereabouts are still unknown, their cases unsolved. They are now among the more than 40,000 other people in Mexico who are registered as disappeared, many in the country’s drug war. This much is known: In one violent and chaotic night, local police officers, working with a criminal gang and the mayor, stopped and shot at the buses carrying the teacher-training students. Later, they fired at others also on their way out of town — taxis, and the soccer team’s bus — though they were not connected to the students. There is still no information about what exactly happened, why, who was involved or even where the students are." Like it or not, if 43 students disappeared in the US, the Feds would tear apart whatever state it happened in to find them.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 24, 2019 15:30:30 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/opinion/el-chapo-son-mexico.html"Mr. López Obrador has not clearly outlined what to do with his predecessors’ drug wars, which have claimed more than 250,000 Mexican lives since 2007, and left more than 40,000 missing. During the campaign he called for an end to the drug war, and said he would send the military back to the barracks. As president-elect, he vowed to create a National Guard — made up mostly of former army, navy and federal police troops, newly trained and better paid — and pledged to legalize some drugs. Then he declared that the legalization of marijuana was not on the agenda, to his supporters’ dismay. He disowned the “kingpin strategy,” only to pursue it with El Chapo’s sons. As a result of this erratic approach, violence has grown in Mexico since Mr. López Obrador took office last December, reaching the highest recorded totals in Mexican history. Days before the battle of Culiacán, 14 policemen were massacred in the town of Aguililla, in the state of Michoacán, and 15 people were killed by the army in Tepochica, in the state of Guerrero. Mexico City has seen growing levels of crime, from holdups in Louis Vuitton shops to shootouts in poorer neighborhoods. The government has lost control of the situation." Sadly, Obrador has turned out to be just another business-as-usual President in a country that not just tolerates corruption, but seems to embrace it. Mexico got a Clinton when what they really need is a Castro.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 8, 2020 2:39:59 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/world/americas/amlo-trump-mexico-white-house.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage"MEXICO CITY — The risks could be enormous, but they haven’t swayed Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Mexican diplomats and opposition figures have warned Mr. López Obrador against traveling to Washington this week to thank President Donald Trump and celebrate the beginning of a new trade deal between the two countries and Canada. The visit, they have said, was an incomprehensible choice in the middle of a pandemic and global economic crisis, coming with the risk of public humiliation at the hands of Mr. Trump, who has called Mexican immigrants “rapists” and “animals,” and has said that Mexico is “not our friend.” Still, Mr. López Obrador said he would move ahead with plans to fly to Washington and greet Mr. Trump on Wednesday. “President Trump’s discourse regarding Mexico has been more respectful than it was previously, for which we are very grateful,” Mr. López Obrador said in a recent news conference. “I am also going to give thanks for the U.S. government’s respectful treatment of us.” Who knew AMLO would be such a Trump ass-kisser? Maybe there is just no hope for Mexico.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 26, 2021 20:00:45 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/politics/gov-industries-latam-law/2021/03/26/id/1015370/"Senate Republicans who visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday demanded that the Biden administration restore a Trump-era policy that requires migrants who cross the frontier to go back to Mexico to file for asylum and wait there while their claims are filed.The group, led by Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, said that any congressional action on immigration policy is unlikely until that happens, arguing the change in direction is critical to stopping the arrival of migrants at the border, many of them unaccompanied children, that began last year and has jumped in the weeks since Biden came into office." This never made any sense. Why would people wanting asylum in the US have to wait in Mexico? It only makes sense when you think about how many people Trump had to bribe to make Mexico accept it.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 27, 2021 1:53:20 GMT -5
This thread makes me laugh now. Mexico has as about as much chance of a revolution as Canada, maybe less. NMP.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 10, 2021 4:35:22 GMT -5
How much longer has Trump ass kisser AMLO got in office? Until 2024, I guess. Not that he needs to kiss Trump’s ass now.
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