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Mexico's López Obrador holds daily briefings rivalling Trump’s: ‘A spectacle without any value’
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia May 11, 2020 08:00pm |
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| Category | Perspective |
| Author | David Agren |
| News Date | Monday, May 4, 2020 11:45:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In the course of a two-and-a-half-hour press briefing, the president claimed the country had “flattened” its coronavirus curve (despite official figures showing a relentless rise in cases), he spent several minutes assailing a national newspaper for what he said was unfair coverage, and he defended his attempt to seize control of the budget.
But the leader extemporizing in front of the cameras was not Donald Trump. It was Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose relish for encounters with the press rivals that of his US counterpart.
Amlo, as the Mexican leader is known, inaugurated a daily press 7am conference soon after taking power in 2018. It was a revolutionary move in a country where presidents have rarely faced close questioning.
It also allowed Amlo to set the day’s agenda, much as Trump has often dominated news cycles with his tweetstorms.
As Covid-19 cases mount in Mexico, the sessions have drawn frequent comparisons to Trump’s aborted coronavirus briefings, which similarly focused as much on personal promotion and attacks on enemies as on offering accurate information.
But while Trump has now apparently cooled on daily appearances, Amlo has doubled down. |
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