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Contents: «The Border Crossed Me” — Meizhu Lui, for the editorial team Voices: A Chicano Looks at Immigration from Mexico — Interview with Bill Gallegos, […]

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: President Andrés Manuel López Obrador welcomed the approval of the Judicial Reform in the Chamber of Deputies. He pointed out that the conservative sector that opposes it has no moral, legal, or political grounds to reject the transformation of the country’s judicial system and condemned the Supreme Court justices who went on strike, without grounds but with pay; in presenting a balance sheet of the delivery of social program payments, the Minister of Well-Being Ariadna Montiel reported that as of September, there are over 14.43 million beneficiaries, for whom more than US$26.88 billion will have been invested during 2024; in the Who’s Who is Lies segment it was reported that: it is not true that the Judicial Reform inhibits new investments due to lack of legal certainty; it is false that private property has been eliminated in Mexico City due to the amendments to the capital's constitution regarding Private, Public, and Social Property; it is not the case that job creation closed the first half of the year with negative numbers.

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Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO charged that those who are on strike against the Judicial Reform seek to defend their interests and privileges; during the Zero Impunity report, Deputy Minister of Security Luis Rodríguez Bucio denounced two judges who issued irregular rulings against the Judicial Reform; Minister of Security and Citizen Protection Rosa Icela Rodríguez reported that as of August 31, the number of victims of intentional homicide decreased 19%, compared to December 2018; while presenting a report on the security situation in Guanajuato, Rodríguez charged that the high rates of violence and homicides in the state are related to the application of the neoliberal model applied in 33 years of PAN governments and its alliance with the extreme right-wing El Yunque.

Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: AMLO criticized the judges who promoted legal actions against the judicial reform, which encroaches on the faculties of the legislative branch of government and violates the Constitution; President Lopez Obrador responded to critics of the judicial reform who say that not just anyone can be a judge. “Is it more complex to be a judge than the President of the Republic?” he asked. The President stressed that if judges and justices are elected by popular vote, then they will know that they are representatives of the people and that they owe their position to the people, not to vested interest groups; the President reiterated that relations with the US and Canadian governments are not broken and called on them not express their opinion on the judicial reform. He said that no foreign country should intervene in matters that only correspond to Mexicans. To allow that would mean accepting that they can violate the country’s Constitution; following the presentation of his sixth and final State of the Nation Report, President López Obrador emphasized that he can retire peacefully, because millions of Mexicans have participated in the transformation process and poverty has been reduced.

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Highlights of this morning’s presidential press conference include: following the Federal Electoral Tribunal’s decision to validated Morena and its allied parties’ majority in the Chamber of Deputies, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador emphasized that the will of the population, expressed in the June 2 election, is being fulfilled; the President reiterated that on Sunday, September 1, he will deliver his final State of the Nation address in Mexico City's Zócalo square. He invited the public to participate in this event, which will begin at 11 am; during López Obrador's administration, four irrigation districts were established to benefit agricultural production on 120,000 hectares of land; tonight is the premiere of the Mayan Train documentary by Epigmenio Ibarra at 9:00 p.m. on President López Obrador's official social networks.