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Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: 46 days before the end of his term in office, AMLO emphasized that his administration is finishing positively. There are no economic problems, poverty has been reduced, the popular economy has been strengthened, the peso has not been devalued, the minimum wage has been increased, record investment figures are being posted, priority projects are functioning, and the unemployment rate has dropped, among other indicators; López Obrador denied that there is pressure from the US Government for Mexico to take a position on the results of the Venezuelan presidential election and reiterated that his only desire is for the issue to be resolved peacefully, without violence; on August 19, during his morning press conference, President López Obrador will lead a tribute to Mexican nationals living in the United States. They are the representation of our country, of Mexico's greatness", the President said. The work of Mexican migrants generates US$324.8 billion, of which US$63.3 billion are sent back home in remittances, and US$265 billion are reinvested in the US economy.

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO will send a letter to his US counterpart, Joe Biden, to express his disagreement with Washington’s financing of Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity, an association headed by opposition figure Claudio X. González, which is used to attack the federal government; the head of the Financial Intelligence Unit, Pablo Gómez, presented a report on the income of Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity. Between 2016 and 2023 this civic association has received income of almost US$26.62 million, of which US$5.82 million came from US sources; the Mexican Government is considering reforms to the country’s fiscal laws to prevent tax deductible donations to organizations that carry out campaigns against the interests of the majority of the population. When there are deductions, these resources do not reach the Treasury, which in turn prevents them from being invested in the country’s development; in response to the warning from Federal Judiciary employees that they will go on strike to oppose the judicial reform, the President López Obrador said that they are within their rights to do so, however, he asked them to attend to the cases of tax debtors that have been put on the back burner and represent more than 35 billion pesos (US$1.85 billion), resources that can be used for the benefit of the people.

TODAY WE PRESENT TO YOU THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MORNING PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRESIDENT ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR ON THIS AUGUST 13, 2024

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO criticized the hypocrisy of the organizers of yesterday's demonstration against the allocation of proportional representation seats in Congress. He charged that they are asking for the Constitution to be violated, but in the past they did not utter a word because the results favored them; President López Obrador reaffirmed his confidence in Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha following comments by drug trafficker Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada who declared that on the day of his capture he had a meeting scheduled with the state governor; the President asked the U.S. to clarify whether the State Department played a role in the transfer and detention of drug trafficker Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada in Texas; the President criticized the decision to release former Puebla governor Mario Marín this past Saturday, August 10. A judge changed the precautionary sentence from preventive imprisonment to house arrest, which favored the ex-governor who assisted in the 2006 electoral fraud and is accused of torturing journalist Lydia Cacho.

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Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO criticized the lack of cooperation from the US government to clarify how the arrest of drug traffickers Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López came about; 10 years after the Sonora River environmental disaster, caused by the spill of 40,000 cubic meters of acidified copper sulfate into the Sonora and Bacanuchi rivers, from a mine owned by Grupo Mexico, the company has not complied with the agreement to remedy, repair, and compensate the damages it caused. Grupo Mexico was supposed to cover an initial 2 billion pesos (US$106.21 million), but has only paid half of this amount, and has not satisfactorily complied with the environmental remediation plan. "It is very important that the file remains open; so that this is not swept under the rug," President López Obrador said; the President López Obrador reiterated that it is urgent and necessary to reform the Judicial Branch of government so that it represents the people and stops being at the beck and call of a privileged minority. "The courts must attend to everyone and always put the interests of the people and the nation first," he said.