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aired Sunday, March 24 https://wwwcbsnewscom/video/mexico-president-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-60-minutes-video-2024-03-24/

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: Despite the dirty war waged by the opposition, in social networks, President López Obrador has a 73% approval rating, an 11-point increase compared to December 2023; AMLO announced that the Clinic is Ours program will be created. It will involve a model similar to the School is Ours program, so that the local committees can decide how to invest the resources they will receive from the federal government to improve their health-care centers; the President granted an interview to the CBS program 60 Minutes, which will be broadcasted on Sunday, March 24 at 7:00 pm; during the current administration, over 25,000 Pemex workers have had their employment status formalized. An average of US$149 million per year have been invested in each of the country’s six refineries, just in maintenance and modernization of equipment alone.

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: In response to Texas SB4, Minister of Foreign Relations Alicia Bárcena indicated that Mexico is acting very firmly and will do everything possible to stop this unjust and discriminatory legislation from taking effect. In order to address any problems arising from this law, a legal support system has been set up in the 11 Mexican consulates in Texas; AMLO said he is awaiting the response of the parents of the missing Ayotzinapa students, to whom he proposed a meeting without their lawyers and advisors, to present them with a progress report on the investigation; due to the shortage of doctors and specialists that the country requires resulting from the previous neoliberal governments, during the current administration, the number of medical specialists has been doubled.

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Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: In response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling to let stand the Texas anti-immigrant law, which allows state uniformed officers to detain and deport undocumented migrants, AMLO characterized the legislation as dehumanizing and announced that Mexico will not receive deportees from Texas; the President reported that all evidence of the fiscal debts of business magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego's companies will be uploaded to a Mexican Government web page, so that people can form their own opinions on the issue; dirty and well-financed campaigns in the social media against the AMLO administration were exposed in the Who’s Who in Lies section of the press conference.

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: With six months to go before leaving office, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has an approval rating of 73%, according to a survey published by the daily newspaper Reforma; AMLO reiterated that he will not leave work projects unfinished before ending his term in office; on March 21 the President will meet with the governors of the 23 states that have federalized their health services to evaluate the progress made in providing free medical care; Minister of Security and Citizen Protection Rosa Icela Rodríguez reported that federal crimes have decreased 26% compared to the beginning of the current administration. Intentional homicides are down 25%, with respect to the historical record of July 2018, and remain low. Fuel theft has fallen 94.3%, in relation to 2018, which represents an estimated savings of more than US$18.79 billion.

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO reiterated that his administration’s formula is "no corruption, no luxuries, and that everything saved will go to the people."; in Mexico there are 99,729 individuals whose names are contained in the National Registry of Disappeared and Missing Persons. The official figure in the registry, as of March 15, was 114,815 persons. However, search efforts have resulted in the 15,158 of them being located; the Acapulco Reconstruction Plan has invested almost US$909.68 million in the reconstruction of 301,076 homes and 30,196 businesses. 100% of the city’s schools have now resumed activities; 69% of the hotel stock is once again available for visitors, and mobile and fixed communications are operating normally