President Andres Manuel López Obrador exposed the National Action Party congressional deputies who voted in the Constitutional Points Commission against the constitutional reform to allow the use of freight railroad tracks for passenger trains. He recalled that the PAN legislators also voted against the pension for senior citizens being codified as a constitutional right.
The President criticized the opposition for seeking to violate the Constitution by not accepting the distribution of proportional representation seats in accordance with the law, and trying to change the criteria established in the Constitution by falsely arguing that there is an over-representation of Morena in the Chamber of Deputies. He mentioned that Lorenzo Córdova, as President of National Electoral Institute (INE), has defended the distribution of such seats as established in the Constitution, but he now argues the opposite.
The Mexican Government has saved 337.73 billion pesos (US$17.6 billion) by combatting fuel theft. The amount saved is equivalent to the construction cost of the Dos Bocas refinery, Tabasco, (US$16.80 billion dollars).
President López Obrador congratulated Marco Verde, who reached the boxing final in Paris 2024 and will seek the gold medal for Mexico. The fight will take place on Friday at 13:30 hrs.
In the Who’s Who in Lies segment, it was reported that:
-Fake photographs have been circulated of President López Obrador with drug trafficker Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. They are photomontages.
-It is not true that foreign direct investment in Mexico decreased in 2023. The Mexican Government has broken records by attracting US185.3 billion and the figure is expected to exceed US$200 billion by the end of 2024.
-On August 30, during the morning presidential press conference, the First Hemispheric Conference of Independent Journalists “To Inform is to Liberate” will be inaugurated.
