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Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: The President insisted that there is nothing personal in collecting back taxes from large companies, but rather compliance with the task of defending the interests of the majority of the people; from 2019 to 2023 collection levels reached a record high, increasing from US$170 billion to US$260 billion; the Mexican Government decreed that the area occupied by the Tangolunda golf course in Oaxaca is a Protected Natural Area. It has been under concession to business magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego. To avoid future appropriations of the disputed land, which is property of the Nation, the zone was declared a Protected Natural Area; the President expressed his support for Guerrero Governor Evelyn Salgado’s dismissal of the state ministers of the Interior and Security, following the killing of a young teacher training college student and he reiterated his backing of her request that the state congress dismiss the prosecutor.

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador charged that the ruling by the National Electoral Commission Complaints Commission ordering that the interview he gave to journalist Inna Afinogenova be removed from the social networks was an act of censorship; AMLO made it clear that his administration will not be supporting any U.S. presidential candidate; reports were presented detailing various major electric power projects underway in the state of Baja California; with the Program for the Regularization of Vehicles of Foreign Origin, over 2.13 million motor vehicles have been regularized in 17 states in the country. This has generated over US$320.21 million, which have been used to pave streets in the corresponding states.

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: President López Obrador said he would not be passing on any unresolved problems to the incoming administration, as the foundations for the country’s transformation have been laid; at least 35 Facebook pages posing as media outlets, active since 2024, circulate content against the Mexican federal government. One of the bodies paying for these pages is the Chihuahua state government; it is not true that organized crime-related arrests have declined, as reported by The Wall Street Journal; It was revealed that the company Euthenicks, whose partner is Ximena Céspedes, president of the Communication Committee of the Mexican Employers Confederation, finances the dirty campaign against President López Obrador on Facebook.