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As The Economist urges Mexican voters to vote for anyone who isn’t AMLO, the US government is up to its old tricks: funneling money to political opposition groups.  Andres Manuel López Obrador enjoys pride of place on the cover of the May 29-June 4 edition of The Economist. Above his picture is the headline “Mexico’s False Messiah.” An editorial inside the magazine compares AMLO, as the president is commonly known, to “authoritarian populists” such as Viktor Orbán of Hungary, Narendra Modi of India and Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil. But unlike them, AMLO has been able to escape th...

ABUJA – The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has uncovered diversion of part of the N2.67 billion payments made to some Federal Colleges for school feeding during lockdown. The Chairman of ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, who stated this at the 2nd National Summit on Diminishing Corruption with the theme: “Together Against Corruption and Launch of the National Ethics and Integrity Policy”, said preliminary investigation had indicated that part of the N2.67billion was diverted to private accounts. The event, presided over President Muhammadu...

  Darrell Bradley “It is an important point because they need to have strong criminal laws in relation to illicit gains from public officials. I think when you target a civil asset recovery legislation and you tie that within the very important question of illicit gain by public officials, which is really an illegal activity that people should go to jail for, I think in a sense it diminishes the importance of what you are talking about. You really want to have a standalone legislation that deals with unjust enrichment that says very plainly any person that acquires wealth that cannot be ex...

SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service López Obrador’s Diplomatic Protest Insists Biden Answer: Are You Trying To Overthrow My Government? May 10, 2021 (EIRNS)—Just hours before his scheduled virtual meeting with Kamala Harris on May 7, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that his Foreign Ministry had filed a formal diplomatic protest with the Biden administration over unconstitutional intervention into Mexican political affairs. He presented the proverbial “check-stubs” proving the State Department’s U.S. Agency for International Development was financing of �...

By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News Published May 7, 2021 10:33am The House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal (HRET) has dismissed the protest filed against Kabataan party-list by You Against Corruption and Poverty (YACAP) party-list over alleged fraud and irregularities in the 2019 elections. YACAP party-list, through its first nominee Carol Jayne Lopez, alleged massive electoral fraud, anomalies, and irregularities in all the 341 protested clustered precincts in General Santos City, Cotabato, which include misreading of ballots, miscounting of votes, and the unexplained and improper re...