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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
President Maduro mobilises the 4.5 million-strong Bolivarian National Militia in response to US ‘threats’, vowing to defend the country’s sovereignty and independence, DEVIN B MARTINEZ reports
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
After almost two decades of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism, once led by Evo Morales, right-wing parties have emerged in the lead after the first round of elections on August 17 and are now in control of the legislature, reports PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID MATTHEWS looks at what a collective future for welfare might have in store for us
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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