Amlo’s coronavirus briefings rival Trump’s: ‘a spectacle without any value’

Like Trump, Mexican president’s press briefings focus as much on personal promotion as on offering information

In the course of a two-and-a-half-hour press briefing, the president claimed the country had “flattened” its coronavirus curve (despite official figures showing a relentless rise in cases), he spent several minutes assailing a national newspaper for what he said was unfair coverage, and he defended his attempt to seize control of the budget.

But the leader extemporizing in front of the cameras was not Donald Trump. It was Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose relish for encounters with the press rivals that of his US counterpart.

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