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SUMMARY – MORNING PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE – WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2024

enero 10, 2024 |
Highlights of this morning's presidential press conference include: AMLO expressed his solidarity with the people and government of Ecuador who are facing a rise in organized crime linked domestic armed conflicts; the Mexican government has concluded the emergency phase of Hurricane Otis relief efforts in Guerrero. Financial assistance for reconstruction is now being disributed.

SUMMARY – MORNING PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE – TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2024

enero 9, 2024 |
Highlights of this morning's presidential press conference include: AMLO slammed the Mexico City legislature's refusal to name Ernestina Godoy as city Attorney General as an act of political reverge, in retaliation for her role in exposing oppposition party corrpution in the real estate market; the President's two reform proposals dealing with the mimum wage are to ensure that its increases are higher than the inflation rate and that retired workerrs will receive the same income as before; the goverrnment has designated 423 Natural Protectied Areas, increasing their number from 182 to 235.

SUMMARY – MORNING PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE – MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 2024

enero 8, 2024 |
Highlights of this morning's presidential press conference include: AMLO reiterated that all no missing person case files will be eliminated and direct attention will be provided to family members of disappeared persons; half of Hurricane Otis victims in Acapulco do not have property deeds, which will be now be provided to them; the Federal Consumer Protection Agency denied media desinformation on supposed hikes in fuel prices.

SUMMARY – MORNING PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE – FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 2024

enero 5, 2024 |
Highlights of this morning's presidential press conference include: AMLO hailed Lenia Batres' taking office as a Supreme Court justice. She is incorruptable, and has principles and ideas, he said; The Mexican government is attending to the 22 migrants kidnapped and recently freed in Tamaulipas and is beefing up security in the state; The President blasted sensationalist news coverage of high profile crimes in Tamaulipas and Tabasco as being slanted for partisan political purposes.

SUMMARY – MORNING PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE – THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 2024

enero 4, 2024 |
Highlights of this morning's presidential press conference include: In the context if the 30th anniversary of the Zapatista insurgency, AMLO explained that the government does not repress or harass anyone and the rights of the EZLN are respected; Pemex director Octavio Oropeza prersented a favorable balance sheet of the state run oil company's performance.

SUMMARY – MORNING PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE – WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2024

enero 3, 2024 |
Highlights of today's morning presidential press conference include: The Tamaulipas state prosecutor's office will head the investigation, with fedral government support, into the kidnapping of 31 foreign migrants on a local highway; today is the 100th annioversary of the death of Yucatan radical social activist and historical political leader Felipe Carrillo Puerto; the Maya Train will boost the development of Yucatan, the state governor declared.

SUMMARY – MORNING PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE – TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2024

enero 2, 2024 |
Highlights of this morning's presidential press conference include: As of January 1, government stipends/pensions for senior citizens and people with disabilities will be increased; the new daily minimum wage is 248.53 pesos (US$14.63, a 110% increase in purchasing power since when AMLO took office in 2018; the President said there are sufficient budgetary resources so that the administration's work projects will be concluded before he leaves office.

SUMMARY – MORNING PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2023

diciembre 29, 2023 |
Highlights of this morning's presidential press conference include: Today the President will inaugurate the Megafarmacia, which will supply a full array of pharmaceuticals to medical facilities nationwide within 24 hours; the Mexican government's biannual purchase of phmarmaceuticals will allow for huge savings, as the previous practice of corruption ridden purchases has been eliminated.

SUMMARY – MORNING PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE – THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2023

diciembre 28, 2023 |
Highlights of this morning's presidential press conference include: AMLO characterized his meeting yesterday with top U.S. officials on migration as positive; authorities have disbursed US$700 million in assistence to rebuild homes and premises destroyed by Hurricane Otis; the President said there would be no tax increases in real terms nor hikes in gasoline and electricity prices in 2024

SUMMARY – MORNING PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCE – WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2023

diciembre 27, 2023 |
Highlights of this morning's presidential press conference include: Guidlines of the National Strategy for the Search for Missing Persons; in today's meeting with a top level U.S. government delegation, in the discussions on migration, AMLO will insist on addressing its root causes and aiding the region's poor with resources to overcome their poverty.