Mexico General Discussion: Amlodipine

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Ramsay McDonald 2.0. Fantastic.

I'll say. What a disappointment.

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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”.

Well, at least Vicente is okay

Calderón's presidency was a disaster of world-historical proportions so it would suit my preconceptions of the world if he does turn out to have been a crook as well.

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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?

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Wait, reelection is legal in Mexico now? Was there some sort of constitutional reform?

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MORENA gubernatorial candidate accused of rape will still stand in Guerrero
AMLO can get away with this now due to the fact that other parties really are not better at this, but eventually this along with other socially conservative antics will drag his vote down if a credible leftist alternative appears in the future.

My impression of the AMLO era in general is that he's been a big disappointment but still manifestly better than the alternatives.

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Colima has become the 6th state in Mexico to decriminalize abortion. A recent Supreme Court ruling in Mexico makes abortion decriminalized nationwide, but this is making it official in the state. Interesting dichotomy to the U.S with Roe v. Wade potentially being overturned.

Based, no wonder AMLO’s approvals are sky high

I assumed you were being sarcastic but I looked up AMLO's approvals and was surprised to find that they actually are still very high, compared to the widespread sense even among leftists north of the border that he's been disappointing. Interesting difference of perception between the Mexican and Anglo-American publics.

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Is any headway being made on the femicide problem? I get that abortion legalization is also something Mexican feminists have been pushing for, but how all-in on it MORENA state governments and the Mexican judiciary are going is making me wonder if they're trying to deflect attention from a lack of progress on other issues.