Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
 
			MEXICO has just assumed the rotating presidency of the UN security council, and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (Amlo) took the unprecedented step of arranging to chair a session of the council himself.
Heads of state normally address the general assembly, but Amlo clearly saw this as an opportunity to take the stage at the key decision-making body of the organisation.
On November 9 he chaired a session on a theme chosen by Mexico: peace, security, exclusion, inequality and conflict. After brief statements by the secretary-general and an Ecuadorian woman representing indigenous peoples, Amlo quoted former US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt (one of the founders of the UN) on the universal right to a life free from fear and poverty.
 
               DAVID RABY reports on the progressive administration in Mexico, which continues to overcome far-left wreckers on the edges of a teaching union, the murderous violence of the cartels, the ploys of the traditional right wing, and Trump’s provocations 
 
 
               Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
 
                
               
 
               

