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April 23, 2024

Mexico's president gets sloppy in a rush to finish projects before term ends

  • Cranes have crashed off bridges and pilings have been sunk into protected cave systems.
    • By MARK STEVENSON
    Associated Press

    MEXICO CITY — Mexico's president is in a rush to finish the big legislative and building projects he promised before his term ends in September, and experts say officials are getting a bit sloppy amid all the haste.

    Last week, legislators from the governing Morena party mistakenly submitted the wrong bill on pension reform for a vote in Congress, before sheepishly admitting the error and rescheduling the vote. They claimed Thursday that aides had mistaken one set of papers for another, but the bill almost got approved before the opposition noticed the error.


     
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