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COVID blows AMLO legacy for lovers and haters alike

September 30, 2020Economy, Energy, PoliticsAMLO, AMLO legacy, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Dos Bocas refinery, Lopez Obrador, Marcelo Ebrard, Maya Train, Morena, Pemex, PRI, republican austerity, Santa Lucia airportTom

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused economic devastation and loss of life around the world, and we are now coming to the conclusion that the disease will rob us of one more thing some of us very much looked forward to seeing: The historical verdict on an AMLO government. All our lives (or at least, in our case, since the López Portillo administration), we have parroted the same truisms about Mexican society: that all politicians are corrupt, the unions are corrupt, Pemex is corrupt, the police are corrupt, and generally that él que no transa no avanza — he who doesn’t engage in corruption doesn’t get ahead. Continue reading COVID blows AMLO legacy for lovers and haters alike →

AMLO in zany refurb airport caper

April 30, 2019Politics, UncategorizedAMLO, Lopez Obrador, Mexico City airport, Santa Lucia airport, Toluca airportadmin

Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (herein AMLO or El Peje) announced last week that work would begin Monday, April 29 to convert a military air base outside Mexico City for commercial aviation. When multiple sources jumped to point out that neither the master plan nor the required environmental impact assessment had been presented, the aggravated president agreed to push back start of work until June. If this barmy caper has a happy ending we will be a monkey’s uncle, but Dear Leader is determined so it looks like we will find out. Continue reading AMLO in zany refurb airport caper →