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...“I don’t think there’s been this many insults, shouting matches and recalls of ambassadors in the region for a long, long time,” said Mexico’s former foreign minister Jorge Castañeda....
...El Salvador is “a very unique situation”, said Jorge Castañeda, a commentator and former Mexican foreign minister....
...Some Mexican political experts, like Jorge Castañeda, rate her highly. “She is a very competitive candidate,” Castañeda said. “And she is an excellent campaigner....
...“Mexico right now is one of the most attractive countries, among the top five most attractive in the world,” economy minister Raquel Buenrostro said in an interview....
...“The Mexican army was left untrained, poorly equipped, corrupted, neglected and sidelined for 80 years as a deliberate state policy in order to avoid any temptations of power,” says Jorge Castañeda, an academic...
...“Our democracy is still incipient,” says Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister in Mexico, who now lectures on governance at NYU and Sciences Po. “It’s a work in progress....
...Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador named Raquel Buenrostro as the country’s new economy minister on Friday, selecting a candidate known for taking a hard line in negotiations....
...“Public spending on infrastructure is down,” said Jorge Andrés Castañeda, a consultant in Mexico City, “but it’s concentrated in his pet projects.”...
...For Democrats like Lopez, the first step is to determine what went wrong....
...López Obrador’s critics say the moves threaten the rule of law and independent institutions....
...Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister from the conservative PAN party, said he believed López Obrador had wasted an opportunity to use his “enormous legitimacy” to enact far-reaching reforms....
...Despite López Obrador’s plans, Monroy doubted Mexico would stop exporting crude....
...“This shouldn’t even be up for discussion — the simple fact that there are these allegations should be enough [to block his candidacy],” said Patricia Olamendi, a lawyer for Basilia Castañeda....
...Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister, said: “This is the most difficult problem of López Obrador’s administration because there’s no good way out.”...
...Jorge Andrés Castañeda, an energy consultant, also noted that as the government slashed spending on advisers and travel, “that’s money that isn’t going into the economy”....
...“Raquel Buenrostro is very good at collecting,” Ms Bernal said. “But it’s very easy when you have a garrotte in your hand.”...
...“On issues like trade, labour and the environment, Biden might be much tougher than Trump,” said Jorge Castañeda, a former Mexican foreign minister....
...Mr López Obrador opposes the reform and wants to stamp out graft....
...There is an additional problem: the more Pemex’s plants refine, the more low-value fuel oil they produce, “so what comes out of the refineries is worth less than the oil that went in”, said Jorge Andrés Castañeda...
...In Mexico, the son of a key ally of president Andrés Manuel López Obrador was reported to have tried to sell ventilators to the state social security institute at a vastly inflated price....
...“It’s a learning curve,” said Jorge Andrés Castañeda at IMCO, a think-tank, of the new policymaking. “But it’s steep and it’s going to cost us.”...
...Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister*, wrote in a tweet that the national guard would be “under military authority, and we know how that finishes”....
...Take Mexico’s new leftist president Andrés Manuel López Obrador....
...Back then, Andrés Castañeda, Aeroméxico’s marketing director, told an interviewer: “We felt at the time that we had to go out and make a bold statement.”...
...Mr López Obrador takes office with the strongest mandate of any Mexican president in decades....
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