#MEXICO: AMLO on the eve of control as the peso retreats. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ
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🗓️ 31 August 2024
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1909 Mexico
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| 0:00.0 | This is to be a Bessie on the world. I'm John Bachelor. The Mexican election is over. |
| 0:05.2 | Claudia Scheinbaum, the new president, to be inaugurated on October 1st in a number of weeks. |
| 0:11.2 | At the same time, the legislature is to be sworn in. of the Wall Street Journal editorial page America's columnist. |
| 0:26.5 | Amlow, the outgoing very popular president, six-year term, has been disappointed for some time since the mid-terms that he did not win control |
| 0:36.3 | enough to adjust the Constitution and now adjust the political landscape to favor his Marina Party indefinitely. |
| 0:47.0 | At the same time, the Constitution adjusted could give Marina access to institutions that are resisting its recommendations. |
| 0:56.0 | Mariah, very good evening to you, I mean to speak diplomatically. |
| 1:00.0 | Your editorial is straightforward. |
| 1:02.0 | The peso is straightforward. The peso is struggling because there are doubts |
| 1:06.0 | about the investment environment in Mexico if and when Mr. Lopez-Obrador is |
| 1:12.2 | successful. Is that a moderating influence on either |
| 1:16.8 | Amlow at this moment the legislature to be sworn in or Claudia Shinebaum |
| 1:21.6 | the president-elect. |
| 1:23.2 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:24.9 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:25.8 | Well, not so far. |
| 1:28.0 | I mean, so far Amlo has reflected a person |
| 1:31.9 | who's extremely stubborn insist that this is the way things have to go |
| 1:38.6 | and hasn't budged from his, which is that he will remake the judiciary in a way that's going to basically concentrate power for Modena, his party, and get rid of independent institutions like the |
| 1:55.8 | regulatory autonomous regulatory bodies that give investors |
| 2:00.4 | confidence when they put money in Mexico he He wants to get rid of those, |
| 2:04.0 | put them under the control of the president. And he also wants to make the big oil |
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