Good afternoon, im the director and associate fellows of the american society. Im happy to host this panel, last december, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won in july 2018 in a landslide victory on a left wing platform that would promote the respect of human rights improve the economy, work to end the ongoing drug war, and address corruption at all levels of government. For many mexicans, amlo has represented a paradigm shift from the governance of the past few decades and sees himself as a remedy to ineffective government responses to corruption and violence. Yesterday marked the First Anniversary of his inauguration and during his first year in office, amlo has enjoyed a record high approval rating. However, in the past year hes also faced challenges on many fronts including mexicos security, economy, and migration. Today, we will discuss his Campaign Promises, how they have fared in this first year, and what to expect going forward. Today, im joined by four experts, carlos is associate
Try to understand where is this proclaimed nationalist president going to be on some of the key issues . Theyre also going to be seeing and listening for whether he meddles rhetorically even in the upcoming uk election. Which is coming up the Americas Program here at csis and its my pleasure to welcome you today. We are very excited to host such a distinguished panel to discuss this timely topic. Last december on Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, better known as amro, he won in july of 2018 in a landslide victory on a leftwing platform that promised to, among other things, promote the respect of human rights, improve the economy, work to end the ongoing drug war, and address corruption at all levels of government. For many mexicans, amlo has represented a paradigm shift from the governance of the past few decades and sees himself as a remedy to ineffective government responses to corruption and violence. Yesterday marked the First Anniversary of his inauguration and during his first year in
We are so honored to have him tonight and he will speak to us for a couple minutes. He said he might take a few questions if you are kind to him. Thank you so much for being here. Welcome back. [applause] thank you for coming out tonight. You all seem very nice and you are all dressed in the same type of blue which is scary. [laughter] you can have the best book or the best message of the best story but there are so many great books out right now. This is my sixth book overall and never has it ever hit on all gears like this we been out for about three weeks we are doing the best we can to get the word out. Thank you for hosting this for me. But to see this professionalism to know that you are eating and drinking for free makes me feel better. [laughter] because he dont want you eating and watching. Its good is not much happening. If you go to the restroom for a second you will lose a major story so i dont. So my goal to get away from politics there is enough trompe and bush and Obama
It is the most popular morning table new show on the planet for 213 months and two weeks and four days, is that right brian . You might also know brian from his radio show which the brain kill me show which is on 150 radio stations across the country and tuckers magazine named him the ten most important talk radio host in america. And get this, between tv and radio brian is on the airway six hours a day five days a week. And yet he has found the time to write a string of New York Times bestselling books, George Washington secret six, Thomas Jefferson and the triple e pirates, Andrew Jackson and the miracle of new orleans all told his books have reached over 2. 5 million readers around the world which is fairly impressive. [applause] these are history books, its impressive. His latest book which we are celebrating tonight is sam houston and ill move injured its another bestseller and debuted last week as number three on the New York Times bestseller list. [applause] unfortunately the li
Migration issues at the u. S. mexico border. Its about an hour and 15 minutes. Advocates, students in the audience. And we are looking forward to a robust discussion among our three expert panelists and a very strong question and answer period. My name is anna gallagher, executive director of the catholic Legal Immigration network. We are an Affiliate Organization with over 370 members in 49 states across the United States. I always like to say were sort of a sleeping giant. Were a quiet organization. Folks may not know our name as quickly as they know the aclu or other organizations. However, we do a lot of the groundwork to support and represent low income immigrants across the United States. We do we help build their programs. We train them. We do advocacy. We also have religious Immigration Services division, which represents and helps bring sisters, brothers, priests, clergy to work in immigrant communities in the United States. And in the last year we added our litigation. Weave