Salinas Pliego and TV Azteca are here to stay
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
's dream came true this week: his concession contracts for TV Azteca has been extended for 20 years. We're told that the Telecommunications Federal Institute had a private session where it determined the TV network fulfilled all the requisites, and their new contract starts on January 2022. We're told the commissioners asked every public organism, including the INE , to carry on with the proceeding. With this, Salinas Pliego will be able to continue operating his TV channels: Azteca Uno, Azteca 7, and ADN40 . 2018 is ending on a positive note for Mr. Ricardo.
AMLO puts Texcoco of the dead's altar
We're told that Andrés Manuel López Obrador is taking some days off and traveling to Palenque, Chiapas. Andrés Manuel and his family have already packed and are ready to celebrate the Day of the Dead at La Chingada , his ranch. We're told that the President-elect is running away from the water shortage in Mexico City and the disaster after the decision to cancel the Texcoco airport, and without fulfilling his promise to present his national security plan in October. So the NAIM will be among the dead ones in his altar.
The parable of the multiplied ballots
To have a little transparency about the public consultation that took place last week, and that will lead to the cancellation of the Texcoco airport, we're told that the incoming government should clear the issue of the 96,990 extra ballots used for the referendum . We're told that on October 22, Jesús Ramírez , the President-elect's spokesperson, announced the distribution of 1 million ballots all over the country. Nevertheless, the final results show 1,096,990 extra votes. The answer could be very simple, it would be enough to say they printed extra ballots, but what would Morena had said during the times as the opposition, if during a referendum there would have been an extra ballot ?
Peña Nieto leaves the marihuana issue up on the air
The use of marihuana with medicinal and recreational purposes has been trending. And we're told that four weeks before the government change, Enrique Peña Nieto decided to publish a series of guidelines for its regulation, instead of rules, as it's established by the General Health Law. We're told that next Monday, the federal administration will reveal the document: Guidelines for the sanitary control of cannabis and its derivatives, which will contain over 40 articles. The aim of this decision, we're told, is because rules imply an executive order, and that won't happen during the last month of Peña Nieto 's presidency. Did you guess? The pending issue will have to be solved by Andrés Manuel López Obrador 's government.
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