AMLO's first week as president

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AMLO's first week as president

We've been told that Andrés Manuel López Obrador 's guest have started to arrive in Mexico for his presidential inauguration , which will take place on Saturday. Some of the special guests include Silvio Rodríguez and Miguel Ángel Revilla , who visited the Palenque archeological zone , and we've been told they even stayed at the President-elect 's ranch. Mr. Andrés Manuel should rest, because after the ceremonies and parties, on December 8 and 9, he has scheduled several private meetings and trips to Nayarit and Tabasco . In Tabasco, he will visit the land where the new refinery will be built.

Morena slows down

We've been told that after Morena 's clash with the opposition on Tuesday, when they tried to approve a constitutional reform to eliminate political exemption , Morena's majority in Congress decided to approve referendums and the removal from office . We've been told that on Wednesday, Morena, PT, and PES were getting ready to give the President-elect the reform so that he can organize as many referendums as he wishes. Nevertheless, they decided to postpone the discussion until after AMLO takes office. Morena isn't sure it can make that reform happen, which is valuable for the incoming President , and will in negotiate with the opposition?

Navarrete Prida's warning

The transition has been so civilized that the outgoing and incoming Education Minister s, Esteban Moctezuma and Otto Granados , walk arm in arm through the SEP building, and in the case of the Ministry of the Interior, Alfonso Navarrete Prida has been giving advice to Olga Sánchez Cordero . Both of them inaugurated the Jorge Carpizo cinema. And in what could be his one of his last speeches as the Interior Minister, Navarrete Prida warned that “without trying to scare”, the work in this office implies living in the Covián Palace . You have breakfast, lunch, and dinner there, and that nobody leaves before the Minister . So there will be pay cuts and more work to do.

Turning the lights off at Los Pinos

Los Pinos

will no longer be the presidential residence , which motivated some media outlets to take pictures of the residence, which will soon turn into a museum and will be open to the public. EL UNIVERSAL tells how the lights are now off, there is less surveillance, and the offices and other rooms are now empty. In a series of televisions reports, TV Azteca will tour the residence, accompanied by President Peña Nieto himself, who met with journalist Javier Alatorre days before moving out.

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