Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Vendors expected to do well with sales of presidential souvenirs

AMLO dolls and other presidential souvenirs were on full display yesterday Mexico City’s zócalo, where street vendors expected to make a killing off AMLOFest, the first-anniversary celebration of President López Obrador’s election win.

Despite authorities’ attempts to block their access to the zócalo and surrounding streets, vendors persisted, drawn by the prospect of selling mugs, t-shirts, umbrellas and stuffed figurines bearing the president’s likeness to the thousands of presidential fans expected to attend the event.

Many of the souvenirs bore the president’s most popular refrains, such as “Al pueblo de México le voy a cumplir” (“I will keep my promise to the Mexican people”), “Me canso ganso” (a popular colloquial phrase meaning “I am as good as my word” or literally “I’m tired goose”) and a common rhyming slogan among his followers, “Es un honor estar con Obrador” (“It’s an honor to stand with Obrador”).

Prices for the mementos ranged from 35 pesos for stuffed AMLO keychains, 70 pesos for presidential baseball caps, 80 pesos for t-shirts and up to 260 pesos for replicas of the president’s distinctive maroon vest.

Some 100,000 supporters turned up to hear the president deliver a 90-minute speech highlighting his achievements seven months after taking office.

The event also included performances by the Symphonic Band of Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, flautist Horacio Franco and double bassist Víctor Flores, and Margarita Vargas, also known as the Goddess of Cumbia.

Source: Milenio (sp)

Have something to say? Paid Subscribers get all access to make & read comments.
IPN students

‘TlalocBox’ could streamline monitoring of Mexico’s water supply

3
The device, invented by two students at the National Polytechnic Institute and named for the Aztec rain god, aims to provide cistern water quality data in real time.
restauarnt floating in the Gulf of Mexico

Veracruz restaurant swept to sea during flood comes ashore 570 km away

0
After breaking from the city’s seawall on Oct. 10, the Tuxpan restaurant El Atracadero (The Dock) floated past the city of Heroica Veracruz and the popular tourist destination of Boca del Río before beaching near Coatzacoalcos on Friday.
Soldiers destroying confiscated firearms with a machine

Sheinbaum government seizing firearms at twice the rate of previous administration

4
The 17,283 firearms seized by the federal government in the 12 months leading up to to Sept. 30 is equivalent to 33% of the 51,384 guns confiscated during the best part of López Obrador's presidency.
BETA Version - Powered by Perplexity