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If White House officials're excluded, if not all are invited, a representative from the Mexican government would go, but I wouldn't.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m in good health already, I’m recovering, we have to move forward in this crisis, this health crisis, the pandemic, and the economic crisis.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We are also getting AstraZeneca vaccines, apart from the agreement we have with them - these vaccines are being made here in Mexico - we will bring AstraZeneca from India.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I will be conducting all public affairs from the National Palace. For example, tomorrow I will take a call from President Vladimir Putin, because irrespective of friendly relationships, there is a possibility that they will send us the Sputnik V vaccine.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Everything indicates relations will be good and for the benefit of our people and nations.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
There is no way that we are going to invent crimes, we have said that if the DEA has additional information to present it.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I am not going to go to any international body, but I respectfully believe (the DEA) should do an internal investigation and clarify what happened, who made the file, who gave the order to apply it.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
What Reforma published is in the prosecutor’s file. I don’t know how they got it, but it’s real.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
The director of Twitter in Mexico was a campaigner or sympathizer very close to PAN, the one who currently runs Twitter, (He) was even an advisor to a very famous PAN senator.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I hope that today or in the coming days he presents the migration plan, what it is going to consist of, how they are going to respect their right to be recognized, that they get dual nationality.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
What it is going to consist of, how they are going to respect their right to be recognized, that they get dual nationality.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We are going to start at the bottom, where the most marginalized people live.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I think that by April, the majority of us Mexicans, the most vulnerable, will have been vaccinated.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
It’s a decision for women, it’s just that matters of this nature should not be decided from above.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
The majority of the news media in the country are carrying out their duty professionally, there is accurate, real news, the media are objective.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We won’t have that office any more because (Romo) will still be helping me without being a government official, and we’ll take advantage to make savings too.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I have information that they're the ones who are pursuing this campaign, it's just hidden.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We come from a regime defined by corruption and it takes some time to clean up.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We have to investigate if President Pena Nieto is involved and see how long the company has been operating, what contracts it received ... if they were awarded directly, through tenders.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
They're going to present me with an initial proposal on Monday, and we want to announce it to you and to the Mexican public on Wednesday or Thursday.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
According to the projections, we calculate that the number of hospitalizations will increase, and there will also be an increase in intensive care.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
When I told him that it was 100,000 and we couldn't do any more, he very generously said to me that they were going to help us with the additional 250,000 to what they are going to contribute, so for that I thank him.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It seemed in late March, when the coronavirus had become more widespread, that we would have a considerable reduction (in violence, unfortunately, it didn't turn out that way.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The citizens of Mexicali decided and we will comply with their will.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We're doing this so that we don't auction it off cheaply, so that we aren't in a rush, i'm sure that all the tickets will be sold.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
There was a time when Guzman Loera was as powerful, or had the influence, that the president had at that time, that made it hard to punish those who had committed crimes. That is now history.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We are purifying public life so there is moral authority.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I have news that this situation of extreme surveillance on our embassy in Bolivia has eased considerably.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If the private sector doesn't invest, we'll do it ourselves. We may end my term with 60 or 70 percent of market production coming through the CFE.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I welcome that he has taken our opinion into account. ... It was a very good decision today to defer the designation.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
There still hasn't been growth as we would like, but the distribution of wealth has improved, the budget doesn't end up in a few hands the way it used to, it now reaches the majority of the population.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We ask the lawmakers of the two parties, with all due respect, to help us and not to mix electoral politics with the approval of the agreement.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
This decision was made to protect citizens, you cannot fight fire with fire. We do not want deaths. We do not want war.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I'll speak with President Trump to thank him for his support, and to see if in cooperation agreements there's the possibility of getting help, i don't think we need the intervention of a foreign government to deal with these cases.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We don't want dead people, we don't want war, we're doing really well in our strategy.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The companies accepted the principle that the national interest must be above the private interest, however legitimate (those interests) may be.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We don't want this to happen again, we don't want these hate crimes.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We're going to ask for this person be judged here, too. We're going to ask for his extradition, and the full weight of the law will be felt.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
But it's not our business, and I'm not Pontius Pilate either.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We are very respectful of what other governments decide, but we think that these unfortunate events, which occurred in the U.S., should lead to reflection, analysis and the decision to control the indiscriminate sale of weapons.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Social problems should not be resolved with use of force and incitement of hatred.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We're nobody to recommend to other governments what they should do, but in Mexico there's control over the handling of arms. In other countries, it's like buying any merchandise, there's no control.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
There's a relationship of friendship and brotherhood with Ciudad Juarez, most of the people who lost their lives are our countrymen from Chihuahua, because most lead daily lives in El Paso, Texas, especially those who live in Ciudad Juarez.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We have not accepted the proposal for the so-called third safe country, we could not commit to this.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Our adversaries wanted to hold it back with a shower of legal proceedings.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
These actions demonstrate that there is confidence. The banks don't act without information, they don't take a decision like this because they like the government. They know that Pemex is in very good health.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Everybody is questioning, and betting that the economy will go badly, but when these actions happen it helps a lot because it demonstrates confidence.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
[Buyers] will know that in addition to acquiring a good, they will be also be doing good, that is, they will be helping those who need support because of the situation of poverty and marginalization they suffer.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We have to see the migrant as a human being who is seeking a better life, better conditions to work and risking everything, and we will never encourage this rejection of foreigners.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We have the commitment, and we are going to meet it, to better control our border, on our southern border, to ask that those who enter (Mexico) register.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
And we will never encourage this rejection of foreigners.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I can't allow anyone to go against our country's economy and even less so if it establishes an unjust asymmetry, unworthy of our government and humiliating for our nation.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The main thing is to inform about what we're already doing on the migration issue, and if it's necessary to reinforce these measures without violating human rights, we could be prepared to reach that deal.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're going to clean up this country. Corruption will end. Impunity will end. And there will be justice.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Before, you didn't know where the authority ended and where delinquency started -- there will be no mixing.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Obviously, we have to help because Central American migrants pass through our territory and we have to bring order to this migration, make sure it's legal, that's what we're doing. But serenely, calmly, without a commotion and with great prudence and responsibility.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We want to have a good relationship with the government of the United States.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We respect president Trump's position, and we are going to help. That is, this is a problem of the United States, or it's a problem of the Central American countries. It's not up to us Mexicans, no, i just emphasize that migration flows of Mexicans to the United States are very low, a lot lower.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I just emphasize that migration flows of Mexicans to the United States are very low, a lot lower.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What we want to see is if we can put together a joint group to do some fact-finding about what happened, and humbly, based on that, accept our mistakes, that way, we will know what happened 500 years ago, how things happened, if there were abuses or not.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
There was a time in which the main violator of human rights was the state. It was the violator par excellence of human rights. That's over, i, as president, and at the same time as commander of the country's armed forces, will never give the order to massacre, to repress the people of Mexico.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I, as president, and at the same time as commander of the country's armed forces, will never give the order to massacre, to repress the people of Mexico.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I won't take a single step backwards, i can only offer people apologies, if this action causes sacrifices, harm and inconveniences.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are going to eradicate that which not only causes material damages, it is not only what the nation loses by this illegal trade, this black market of fuel, but the risk, the danger, the loss of human lives.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It would be easy to open the pipes and say: 'The situation is normal again,' but we will not knowingly allow the theft to persist... We'll resist all pressures, whatever they are.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Americans must be able to see improvements that better protect our national sovereignty.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I received a call from Donald Trump and we talked for a half hour, i proposed to Donald Trump exploring a comprehensive agreement : development projects which would generate employment in Mexico and with it reduce migration and improve security. There was a respectful treatment and our representatives will hold discussions.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Everything to do with the republican austerity plan and fighting corruption will have priority from the first day of the new Congress.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This purchase is going to be canceled because we can not make this expenditure.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We want to make that the key focus of the relationship with the U.S. government and are grateful that it's understood this way, and there are signs with the Treasury Secretary's visit that we can reach a deal for development, and job creation and welfare, this is what matters most to us, and what we will press for most.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Mexico will follow a respectful foreign policy of non-intervention...and right now, we don't expect to abandon that policy, that does not mean that we're not concerned about the situation in one country or another, in this case Venezuela. We're going to look into it and see how we can design, or help contribute, in the best way.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The objective is that we stop buying foreign gasoline by the half way point of my six-year term, we are going to immediately revive our oil activity, exploration and the drilling of wells so we have crude oil.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What's most important is to resolve the problem of falling crude oil production. We're extracting very little oil.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are going to immediately revive our oil activity, exploration and the drilling of wells so we have crude oil.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We are going to change The United States, and President Donald Trump is going to learn to respect us. I can guarantee you that.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I want to express my satisfaction for the attitude of the business sector, they have acted very respectfully to us, recognizing our triumph.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The people will protect me. ... He who fights for justice has nothing to fear, you'll all be watching out for me.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There's going to be a real change, a deep change, it will be a radical change, but nobody should be scared.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Just as they elected me, they'll have the chance to remove me, but I'm sure I'll win as there will be results.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're going to accompany the current government in this negotiation, we're going to be very respectful, and we're going to support the signing of the agreement.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Instead of using force, we will tackle the causes of insecurity and violence. I am convinced that the most effective and most humane way of dealing with these evils necessarily requires combating inequality and poverty.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The failed strategy of combating insecurity and violence will change, more than through the use of force, we will tend to the causes that give rise to insecurity and violence.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Corruption is not a cultural phenomenon but it is the result of a political regime in decay. We are absolutely certain that this evil is the principal cause of social inequality and of economic inequality, because of corruption, violence has erupted in our country.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Lopez Obrador doesn't want to be the President who kowtows to President Trump. Lopez Obrador doesn't want to be the President who sells out national pride. Lopez Obrador wants to be a president who stands up to the United States. Lopez Obrador wants to be a President who says,' we deserve and we demand respect,'.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
With all my heart, I want today's election to take place without violence.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
With all my heart, I want today's election to take place without violence, as soon as the election is over, we will begin a period of national reconciliation.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
As soon as the election is over, we will begin a period of national reconciliation.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The new president of Mexico will have moral and political authority to demand everyone behaves with integrity and make honesty a priority as a way of life.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's going to be a peaceful, orderly but deep transformation.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're the only ones that can put an end to corruption in Mexico.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It could be the INE or a committee of independent citizens of unobjectionable honesty, we can resolve this, at the latest, in two months. ... Perhaps in the first two weeks of September ... it can't wait any longer.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We're constructing a true democracy, not a dictatorship, and it will be like this in all cases, we're going to listen to the people, and the people will be in charge, always.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We can resolve this, at the latest, in two months. ... Perhaps in the first two weeks of September ... it can't wait any longer.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I am going to suggest that the treaty remains, but (the end of NAFTA) cannot be fatal for Mexicans, our country has a lot of natural resources, a lot of wealth.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Our dream, which we'll achieve regardless of whether Trump accepts or not, is that the Mexican can work and be happy where he was born.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It was a very good meeting with good results for the future of our country, we are going to have a cooperative relationship between the private and public sectors.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There will be agreements to stimulate development, create jobs, many of the problems that we have (in Mexico) have originated because there wasn't growth in the economy.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I understand that German Larrea doesn't want change, because he's done very well.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
She is fighting for there to be peace and tranquility and was accused in a despicable way.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
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