9:05 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ends his press conference.
8:59 AMLO said that on September 1 he will deliver his second Government Report to Congress in writing and that he will offer a message from the National Palace.
8:55 President López Obrador said that this morning he learned that a company was given the concession of the Port of Veracruz for 100 years, but he refused to give the name of that company.
8:33 Referring to the former head of Sedesol, Rosario Robles, AMLO said that if Emilio Lozoya has already been given the benefit of being a collaborating witness, the same benefit should be given to all who want to testify.
8:25 I already told Calderón that I already forgave him for the electoral fraud of 2006, “he knows well that there was fraud”: AMLO.
8:20 President López Obrador said that he does not want it to be thought that he is taking revenge, for it to be thought that “the Presidency was stolen from him and I am upset that I have not overcome it.”
8:07 AMLO pointed out that, if there are former presidents involved in the bribery cases for the energy reform, a citizen consultation has to be made to find out if they are judged or not; “Revenge is not my strong suit,” he says.
8:00 AMLO said that the case of the video of the alleged bribes should be considered a matter of State and that the FGR must make known if the video is the one presented by Emilio Lozoya.
7:58 AMLO said the video “shows the filth of the corruption regime.”
7:55 President López Obrador said he had not seen the video of alleged bribery released yesterday; He explained that it was uploaded clandestinely on Sunday, but that no one had seen it.
7:44 The Secretary of Foreign Relations, Marcelo Ebrard, said that yesterday was “Day 0” to start the development of the vaccine against Covid-19.
7:42 Marcelo Ebrad pointed out that, thanks to the agreement for the manufacture of the vaccine, the Latin American and Caribbean region will have the doses between 6 and 12 months before.
7:39 Chancellor Marcelo Ebrard said the cost per dose of the Covid-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford will be between $ 3 and $ 4; reiterates that in Mexico it will be free.
7:25 The Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, assures that the pandemic in Mexico is in a “clear phase of decline.”
7:23 The Secretary of Health, Jorge Alcocer, reports on the Covid-19 pandemic.
7:22 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador starts his press conference.
6:55 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is expected to offer his morning conference from the National Palace shortly.
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