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What does Amlo's inauguration mean for Mexico?
Ben Cowles talks to Justice Mexico Now's LUPITA VALDEZ about the new president who takes office today
Mexico's new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during his inaugural ceremony at the National Congress in Mexico City, last Saturday
As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
IT’S NOT too much of an exaggeration to say that Mexico is a borderline failed state. Forced disappearances are common, as are arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial killings and torture at the hands of the cartels, the police and the military, all of which go virtually unpunished by the government.
Making matters worse is the fact that elections have traditionally been little more than a rubber stamp for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to maintain its 71-year hold over the country. But now things are different.
On July 1, the leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, or Amlo for short, and his Moreno party won the presidential election by a landslide. Today he becomes president.
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