Tag: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Mexico would like to see OAS dissolved, FM says

  

  In the absence of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), one of the regional leaders who chose not to attend the IX Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles for having excluded Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela from the event, Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard took the stand on behalf of his country.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Buddies getting together not a Summit, LatAm leaders agree

  

  Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora said Friday in Havana that buddies getting together was hardly a Summit, in reference to the US Government's decision not to invite Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba to the regional gathering of heads of state next month in Los Angeles.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 09:19 UTC

  Mexico questions possible country “exclusions” for coming Americas' Summit, in Los Angeles

  

  Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has warned that he will be absent from the Americans Summit, in Los Angeles next month, if the United States finally decides to exclude from the meeting any country from the region.

• Monday, May 9th 2022 - 19:21 UTC

  Presidents of Cuba. Mexico sign joint statement in Havana

  

  The Presidents of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (also known as AMLO) have signed a joint statement Sunday expressing both countries' will to strengthen bilateral ties.

• Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Presidents Biden, López Obrador discuss migration over the phone

  

  US President Joseph Biden and his Mexican colleague Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) were reported Friday to have had a “very constructive and cordial” telephone conversation, according to White House sources.

• Monday, April 11th 2022 - 09:11 UTC

  Recall referendum in Mexico confirms Lopez Obrador support. although only 18% bothered to vote

  

  Voters in Mexico overwhelmingly supported president Andres Manual Lopéz Obrador, AMLO, to finish his six-year mandate in a recall referendum, but the result in not binding since less than 20% bothered to vote and he needed the participation of 40% of the electorate. Anyhow AMLO celebrated, “I won, I'm staying”

• Thursday, April 7th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Freedom of the press just a nice idea in Mexico

  

  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)'s special rapporteur on Freedom of Expression said the Mexican government was actually “encouraging” the increasing attacks against journalists recorded in the country.

• Monday, March 7th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Mayan Train poses environmental threat to southern Mexico

  

  Environmentalist groups in Mexico have raised objections to one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's (AMLO) most publicized works - the Mayan train - is devastating huge swathes of virgin jungles.

• Thursday, March 3rd 2022 - 02:48 UTC

  Mexican President against invasions, censorship, and black lists

  

  As a country that has been invaded in the past, by the United States in 1914, “we cannot accept” any more invasions, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Wednesday.

• Friday, February 11th 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Mexico City Mayor takes flak for supporting use of ivermectin against COVID-19

  

  Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum came under heavy flak Thursday for her handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for the alleged manipulation of a study which recommended the use of ivermectin to treat this disease.