Mexico leader beats COVID, vows to end transparency agency

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president returned to his morning press briefings Friday after recovering from COVID-19, and he came out swinging. His return came the same day that opposition legislators continued to hold protests in the Senate, after senators from López Obrador’s Morena party refused yet again to approve appointments to the national information-access agency. Legislators from López Obrador’s Morena party voted late Thursday against approving the appointment of a fifth committee member, prompting opposition senators to stand in front of the speakers’ podium with banners reading “INAI Now!” and “Appointments for the INAI now!”A leader of the Morena delegation in the Senate, César Cravioto, was seen slapping and punching opposition lawmakers’ hands in a bid to rip the banners away from them

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